Utilities United States July 2026
~245k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~25
Organizations
These insights represent ~245k questions answered from ~25 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.
To ensure accuracy and stability of Emerging benchmarks we may use statistical sampling methods. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Utilities
Reported gender breakdown
Male
69%
Female
31%
Non-Binary
0.14%
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.
70% of Utilities United States employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 39% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 14 and is in the bottom 48% compared with the overall average.
How does Utilities United States compare?
On the lower side, people in Utilities United States had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Innovation.
People working in Utilities United States are more engaged than Management Consulting United Kingdom, Management Consulting Europe, Information Technology & Services Germany, and Consulting & Staffing United Kingdom. People working in Utilities United States are less engaged than Africa 1000+, Biotechnology, Civil Engineering APAC, and Middle East (1000-5000).
The highest scoring question for Utilities United States had 87% of people agreeing that their manager genuinely cares about their wellbeing (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Utilities United States 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 30% of people disagreeing (+13% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 20% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+1% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
5%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
14%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
21%