United Kingdom January 2026
~7.5m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~1k
Organizations
These insights represent ~7.5m questions answered from ~1k 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
Computer Software, Financial Services, Information Technology & Services, Internet, Marketing & Advertising, Computer & Network Security, Nonprofit Organization Management, Investment Management
Reported gender breakdown
Male
55%
Female
45%
Non-Binary
0.16%
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.
65% of United Kingdom employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 38% compared with other regions.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 5 and is in the bottom 39% compared with other countries.
How does United Kingdom compare?
People in United Kingdom were much more positive than average regarding Goal Alignment and Coaching.
On the lower side, people in United Kingdom had much lower favorable scores than average in Decision Making, Work Pressure, and Progress And Growth.
People working in United Kingdom are more engaged than Hungary. People working in United Kingdom are less engaged than Egypt, Serbia, South Africa, and Singapore.
The highest scoring question for United Kingdom had 88% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in United Kingdom were generally least favourable about Decision Making, and were most negative towards 'I am satisfied with how decisions are made at %[Company]%' with 18% of people disagreeing (+5% 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 Kingdom organizations.
1 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
2 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 25% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+5% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 14% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+4% 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
1%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
16%
Greater than 10 years
22%