Resources & Utilities Australia July 2026
~1.4m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~90
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.4m questions answered from ~90 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Utilities, Renewables & Environment, Mining & Metals, Environmental Services, Oil & Energy, Industrial Automation
Reported gender breakdown
Male
68%
Female
32%
Non-Binary
0.1%
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.
66% of Resources and Utilities Australia employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 42% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 4 and is in the bottom 22% compared with the overall average.
How does Resources and Utilities Australia compare?
People in Resources & Utilities Australia were much more positive than average regarding Ownership and Transfer Of Expectations & Values.
On the lower side, people in Resources & Utilities Australia had much lower favorable scores than average in Feedback & Recognition, Company Performance, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in Resources & Utilities Australia are more engaged than Management Consulting United Kingdom, Management Consulting Europe, Information Technology & Services Germany, and Consulting & Staffing United Kingdom. People working in Resources & Utilities Australia are less engaged than Building Materials, Civic & Social Organization (100-200), APAC (200-500), and New Zealand (200-500).
The highest scoring question for Resources & Utilities Australia had 87% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Resources & Utilities Australia 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 23% of people disagreeing (+6% 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 Australia organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
3 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+4% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 11% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+1% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
7%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
23%
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