Tata Steel Targets 20% Diverse Workforce by 2028, Celebrates 10 Years of Inclusion Initiative MOSAIC

Tata Steel on Tuesday announced a plan to increase the diversity of its workforce to 20 in all its companies by the year 2028 as the organization continues to celebrate a decade-long journey of diversity and inclusivity termed MOSAIC.

Launched in 2015, MOSAIC aims to “bring alive inclusion as a lived experience within the organization.” It has five strategic pillars that meet diverse needs-cutoms for recruitment, sensitization, retention and development, infrastructure, and celebration to address the unique needs of women, persons with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, and others underrepresented.

”MOSAIC is more than a program-it is our commitment to reinventing workspaces, ” stated Atrayee Sanyal, Chief People Officer, Tata Steel. ”That is the core of this strategy from a deep belief in creating a thriving ecosystem where every individual is thriving in being their best self.”

Progressive policies unique to Tata Steel’s people-first approach are among such like equal benefits for LGBTQIA+ partners, gender-neutral parental leave support in gender-transition, as well as inclusive relocation benefits. All these efforts have made Tata Steel the torchbearer for its inclusivity within the workplace compared to others in male-dominated industrial sectors such as steel and mining.
Over the last decade, MOSAIC has been the forerunner of many firsts.

Landmark initiatives include Women of Mettle scholarship (2017); Women@Mines program (2019); Queerious case competition for students of the LGBTQIA+ community; and onboarding transgender Heavy Earth Moving Machinery (HEMM) operators in the year 2021. In 2023, the company launched Ananta Quest for students with disabilities and trained its first batch of female firefighters. This year, Tata Steel created another milestone operationalizing India’s first all-women mining shift at its Noamundi mine.

Thesis efforts are not just symbolic-they have helped deconstruct deep-set stereotypes and redefined what inclusive employment means in industrial sectors.

Reaffirming with more significance its century-long legacy of pioneering HR practices, Tata Steel recommits to an inclusive tomorrow, where the idea is not an initiative but a way of working with diversity.