United Arab Emirates January 2026
~770k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~100
Organizations
These insights represent ~770k 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
Financial Services, Information Technology & Services, Computer Software, Marketing & Advertising, Computer & Network Security, Architecture & Planning, Construction, Hospital & Health Care, Retail, Oil & Energy
Reported gender breakdown
Male
56%
Female
44%
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.
74% of United Arab Emirates employees are engaged
This is in the top 39% compared with other regions.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 24 and is in the top 21% compared with other countries.
How does United Arab Emirates compare?
People in United Arab Emirates were much more positive than average regarding Action, Service & Quality Focus, and Company Performance.
On the lower side, people in United Arab Emirates had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity and Work & Life Blend.
People working in United Arab Emirates are more engaged than Hungary, Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany. People working in United Arab Emirates are less engaged than Mexico, Brazil, India, and Colombia.
The highest scoring question for United Arab Emirates had 91% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+4% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in United Arab Emirates were generally least favourable about Equity, 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 33% of people disagreeing (+9% 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 United Arab Emirates 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 Day-to-day decisions here demonstrate that quality and improvement are top priorities | Service & Quality Focus |
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
0.81%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
8%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
27%