Tech: Manufacturing & Research United Kingdom July 2025
Emerging
Benchmark status
We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Computer Hardware, Printing, Wireless
Reported gender breakdown
Male
77%
Female
23%
Non-Binary
0.06%
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.
63% of Tech: Manufacturing and Research United Kingdom employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 26% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -7 and is in the bottom 3% compared with the overall average.
How does Tech: Manufacturing and Research United Kingdom compare?
On the lower side, people in Tech: Manufacturing & Research United Kingdom had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in Tech: Manufacturing & Research United Kingdom are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Tech: Manufacturing & Research United Kingdom are less engaged than E Learning North America, Logistics & Transport Australia, Resources & Utilities Europe, and Education (100-200).
The highest scoring question for Tech: Manufacturing & Research United Kingdom had 86% of people agreeing that their manager genuinely cares about their wellbeing (-1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Tech: Manufacturing & Research United Kingdom 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).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 24% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+4% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 13% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+3% 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
0.3%
3 months to 6 months
0.62%
6 months to less than 1 year
2%
1 to less than 2 years
11%
2 to less than 4 years
18%
4 to less than 6 years
13%
6 to less than 10 years
20%
Greater than 10 years
35%