Tech: Manufacturing & Research Western Europe 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
Reported gender breakdown
Male
72%
Female
28%
Non-Binary
0.08%
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 Tech: Manufacturing and Research Western Europe employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 37% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 0 and is in the bottom 10% compared with the overall average.
How does Tech: Manufacturing and Research Western Europe compare?
On the lower side, people in Tech: Manufacturing & Research Western Europe had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Service & Quality Focus, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Tech: Manufacturing & Research Western Europe are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Tech: Manufacturing & Research Western Europe are less engaged than Food & Beverage United States, Consulting & Staffing (100-200), Manufacturing APAC, and Apparel & Fashion.
The highest scoring question for Tech: Manufacturing & Research Western Europe 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 Tech: Manufacturing & Research Western Europe were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies' with 26% of people disagreeing (+3% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 18% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-2% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 8% of people see themselves leaving within two years (-2% 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
0.43%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
5%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
23%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
19%
Greater than 10 years
26%