Tech: Manufacturing & Research January 2026
~3m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~60
Organizations
These insights represent ~3m questions answered from ~60 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
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Printing, Wireless, Computer Hardware
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Asia
31%
Northern America
28%
Europe
20%
Latin America
14%
Oceania
5%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
67%
Female
33%
Non-Binary
0.05%
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.
72% of Tech: Manufacturing and Research employees are engaged
This is in the top 43% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 11 and is in the bottom 21% compared with other industries.
How does Tech: Manufacturing and Research compare?
People in Tech: Manufacturing & Research were much more positive than average regarding Inclusion.
On the lower side, people in Tech: Manufacturing & Research had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Learning & Development, and Social Connection.
People working in Tech: Manufacturing & Research are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, Government Administration, and Government. People working in Tech: Manufacturing & Research are less engaged than Venture Capital & Private Equity and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Tech: Manufacturing & Research had 89% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Inclusion.
People in Tech: Manufacturing & Research were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 15% of people disagreeing (+1% 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 Tech: Manufacturing and Research organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
2 %[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals | Company Performance |
3 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-1% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 9% 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
6%
1 to less than 2 years
12%
2 to less than 4 years
22%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
17%
Greater than 10 years
27%