What diversity and inclusion mean to us
Diversity and inclusion are central to how we work together at Atlas Copco Group.
With around 56,000 employees in more than 70 countries, we believe that our different experiences and perspectives strengthen our organization and that everyone should feel able to contribute and belong.
Diversity and inclusion are a shared responsibility. While our values and cultural behaviors guide us globally, our culture is also shaped locally by our people and communities. The common foundation and local culture create workplaces where people feel supported and able to contribute fully.
Our shared philosophy
Our five cultural behaviors - act collaboratively, with accountability, with respect, with curiosity, and experimentally - shape how we work together and how we create space for different perspectives.
The behaviors are supported by our social sustainability targets, which help to build a culture grounded in fairness, respect, and openness. Through our engagement survey, we follow how our colleagues experience their workplace and how shared behaviors and commitments create a common direction.
A shared commitment across the Group
Each of our four Business Areas has a diversity and inclusion plan, reflecting our shared philosophy and adapted to local needs and contexts. Across the Group, colleagues act as diversity and inclusion ambassadors. With an understanding of their local environment, they support leaders in turning our shared intentions into everyday actions.
Respect creates respect
Respect is one of Atlas Copco Group’s cultural behaviours and defines how we work together across the organisation. Within Vacuum Technique, this commitment is brought to life through the “Respect Creates Respect” campaign.
The campaign focuses on how respect shows up in everyday interactions, how we collaborate, support one another, and work with our customers. By encouraging open dialogue across our global teams, Respect Creates Respect creates space for reflection on what respect looks like in practice and how each of us contributes to a safe, inclusive, and supportive workplace culture.
A reverse-mentorship approach
The Women Interactive Network (WIN) is one of our business area Industrial Technique’s diversity & inclusion initiatives, focused on strengthening inclusive leadership and supporting the progression of women across the business. Through a reverse‑mentorship approach, WIN connects senior leaders with talented women to share perspectives on leadership, careers, and everyday experiences at work. The initiative recognises that engineering and industrial sectors continue to face challenges in attracting and retaining women, and that inclusive leadership plays a key role in shaping opportunities for future talent.
Real workplace conversations
The Power Technique business area has developed a story-driven diversity and inclusion board game - a practical learning experience that brings inclusion into real workplace conversations. Through peer dialogue, decision-making scenarios, and shared reflection, teams strengthen collaboration, leadership awareness, and collective responsibility for an inclusive culture. The game reflects how inclusion is not a standalone initiative, but a capability embedded in how we work, lead, and perform together worldwide.
Part of how work gets done
At our Compressor Technique business area, inclusion is about translating diverse perspectives into stronger collaboration, innovation and customer value.
The Fourward Together programme takes a practical, everyday approach, using a shared monthly calendar to highlight simple actions teams can apply in their daily work. Built around themes linked to innovation, customer focus, collaboration, and recognition, it helps make inclusive behaviors part of how work gets done, supporting performance, engagement, and sustainable growth.
Local voices - Global culture
