Resources & Utilities Oceania January 2026
~1.7m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~100
Organizations
These insights represent ~1.7m questions answered from ~100 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 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, Renewables & Environment, Mining & Metals, Environmental Services, Oil & Energy, Industrial Automation
Reported gender breakdown
Male
69%
Female
31%
Non-Binary
0.31%
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.
68% of Resources and Utilities Oceania employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 45% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 13 and is in the bottom 43% compared with the overall average.
How does Resources and Utilities Oceania compare?
People in Resources & Utilities Oceania were much more positive than average regarding Transfer Of Expectations & Values.
On the lower side, people in Resources & Utilities Oceania had much lower favorable scores than average in Feedback & Recognition, Company Performance, and Innovation.
People working in Resources & Utilities Oceania are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Resources & Utilities Oceania are less engaged than Education (0-100), Resources & Utilities, New Tech Africa, and Consumer Goods & Services United States.
The highest scoring question for Resources & Utilities Oceania had 87% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Work & Life Blend.
People in Resources & Utilities Oceania 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 22% of people disagreeing (+5% 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 Oceania organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
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, 21% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+1% 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
1%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
20%
2 to less than 4 years
25%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
12%
Greater than 10 years
23%