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Utilities (1000-5000) January 2026

  • ~1.1m

    Questions answered
    over 12 months

  • ~25

    Organizations

These insights represent ~1.1m questions answered from ~25 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

Utilities

Most represented regions in this benchmark

  • Oceania

    66%

  • Northern America

    17%

  • Europe

    10%

  • Asia

    5%

Reported gender breakdown

  • Male

    70%

  • Female

    30%

  • Non-Binary

    0.11%

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 Utilities (1000-5000) employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 43% compared with other industries.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 9 and is in the bottom 14% compared with other industries.

How does Utilities (1000-5000) compare?

People in Utilities (1000-5000) were much more positive than average regarding Alignment & Involvement.


On the lower side, people in Utilities (1000-5000) had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Company Performance.

People working in Utilities (1000-5000) are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Utilities (1000-5000) are less engaged than Oil & Energy, Tech: Manufacturing & Research, Professional Services, and Hospital & Health Care.

The highest scoring question for Utilities (1000-5000) had 87% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.


People in Utilities (1000-5000) 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 24% of people disagreeing (+6% 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 Utilities (1000-5000) organizations.

1

%[Company]% really allows us to make a positive difference

Social Connection
2

I have access to the learning and development I need to do my job well

Learning & Development
3

I believe there are good career opportunities for me at %[Company]%

Learning & Development

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 20% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+0% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 10% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+0% 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

    2%

  • 3 months to 6 months

    3%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    6%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    15%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    21%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    9%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    11%

  • Greater than 10 years

    32%

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