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Western Europe 1000+ January 2026

  • ~2.5m

    Questions answered
    over 12 months

  • ~350

    Organizations

These insights represent ~2.5m questions answered from ~350 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, Gambling & Casinos, Leisure, Travel & Tourism, Pharmaceuticals, Utilities

Reported gender breakdown

  • Male

    56%

  • Female

    44%

  • Non-Binary

    0.06%

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.

64% of Western Europe 1000+ employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 34% compared with other regions.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 6 and is in the bottom 35% compared with other regions.

How does Western Europe 1000+ compare?

People in Western Europe 1000+ were much more positive than average regarding Goal Alignment, Social Connections, and Coaching.


On the lower side, people in Western Europe 1000+ had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Service & Quality Focus.

People working in Western Europe 1000+ are less engaged than Oceania, Eastern Europe, APAC, and North America.

The highest scoring question for Western Europe 1000+ had 85% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-4% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.


People in Western Europe 1000+ were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I have seen positive changes taking place based on recent employee survey results' with 20% 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 Western Europe 1000+ organizations.

1

%[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals

Company Performance
2

The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success

Leadership
3

At %[Company]% we act on promising new or innovative ideas

Innovation

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+3% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 12% 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

    1%

  • 3 months to 6 months

    2%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    5%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    13%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    24%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    12%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    15%

  • Greater than 10 years

    28%

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