Resources & Utilities 1000+ July 2025
~2.5m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~40
Organizations
These insights represent ~2.5m questions answered from ~40 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 2025.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Utilities, Oil & Energy, Mining & Metals, Renewables & Environment, Environmental Services
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Oceania
50%
Northern America
34%
Europe
10%
MEA
2%
Asia
2%
Latin America
2%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
71%
Female
29%
Non-Binary
0.26%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
70% of Resources and Utilities 1000+ employees are engaged
This is in the top 47% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 16 and is in the bottom 44% compared with other industries.
How does Resources and Utilities 1000+ compare?
On the lower side, people in Resources & Utilities 1000+ had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Company Performance.
People working in Resources & Utilities 1000+ are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Resources & Utilities 1000+ are less engaged than Biotechnology, Accounting, Computer & Network Security, and Investment Management.
The highest scoring question for Resources & Utilities 1000+ had 87% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Resources & Utilities 1000+ were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 26% of people disagreeing (+9% above average).
Which questions matter the most?
Different things are important to different cultures. If you want to make more of your people engaged then you need to know what is important your people. These questions are most important to keeping people engaged in Resources and Utilities 1000+ organizations.
1 I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results | Action |
2 %[Company]% really allows us to make a positive difference | Social Connection |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 20% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+0% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 10% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+0% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
3%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
18%
2 to less than 4 years
23%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
23%