United Arab Emirates 1000+ January 2026
~795k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~70
Organizations
These insights represent ~795k questions answered from ~70 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, Computer Software, Marketing & Advertising, Computer & Network Security, Information Technology & Services, Hospital & Health Care, Architecture & Planning, Construction, Law Practice, Leisure, Travel & Tourism
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 1000+ employees are engaged
This is in the top 43% compared with other regions.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 24 and is in the top 22% compared with other regions.
How does United Arab Emirates 1000+ compare?
People in United Arab Emirates 1000+ were much more positive than average regarding Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Leadership.
On the lower side, people in United Arab Emirates 1000+ had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity.
People working in United Arab Emirates 1000+ are more engaged than Benelux, DACH, Central Europe, and Nordic. People working in United Arab Emirates 1000+ are less engaged than South Asia.
The highest scoring question for United Arab Emirates 1000+ had 92% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+5% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in United Arab Emirates 1000+ 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 32% of people disagreeing (+8% 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 1000+ organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 I believe action will take place as a result of this survey | Action |
3 %[Company]% is in a position to really succeed over the next three years | Company Performance |
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
0.79%
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
12%
Greater than 10 years
28%