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Building a better tomorrow

A place for everyone

At Sage, we want you to bring your whole self to work. Our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategy is designed to knock down barriers with real change so everyone can thrive. We’re determined to create a culture where everyone belongs and can unleash their potential.

Knocking down barriers

Guiding us on our journey to remove barriers is our DEI strategy, centred on these three core principles.

Diverse teams

A range of voices, backgrounds and experiences helps us make balanced decisions that reflect our colleagues, customers and communities.

Inclusive culture

Creating a culture of wellbeing where everyone feels safe, respected and empowered to be themselves, without fear of discrimination or exclusion.

Equity by design

Through data insights, increasing knowledge and DEI centre of excellence support we are equipping leaders to review their projects to build equity into the design.

Where we’re focused

We have six strategic focus areas guiding our DEI work. By remaining intentional about addressing inequity at the intersection of these identities, we have maximum impact.

Disability

Gender

LGBTQ +

Neurodiversity

Race and ethnicity

Social equity

Be uniquely you

Our representation

To better understand our people, we invite our colleagues to complete a self-declaration survey called ‘All About Us’. We use this data in an aggregated way to review our representation against regional population census benchmarks and integrate it within People reporting metrics to review for bias hotspots in our processes.

Gender at Sage

Race and ethnicity at Sage

*We use the term ‘historically under-represented racial and ethnic groups’ to represent our colleagues from Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latin American, Indigenous/First Persons, Middle Eastern/North African, Multiple Ethnic Groups and other racial and ethnic groups. By monitoring our representation levels by each separate identity and aligned to United Nations classifications, it encourages us to challenge systemic biases and work towards a more equitable society for everyone.

**Data from October 2024

Express who you are

Our Colleague Success Networks are colleague-led groups formed on shared identity and lived experiences. They amplify the voices of marginalised communities and provide a platform to share experiences and identify challenges. All colleagues are invited to join and the insights and ideas that stem from networks are fed back to the DEI team and senior leadership to support understanding and action.

Colleague Success Networks at Sage

Progress is better together

We’ve formed several lasting partnerships moving us closer to our DEI goals.

Business in the Community (BITC)

The insights of BITC inform our recruitment, career development structures and strategies to ensure colleagues from the global majority have equal opportunity to thrive.

Business Disability Forum

After a review of our workplace adjustments processes, we are rolling out improved systems across all our locations to better support colleagues with the help of BDF.

Neurodiversity in Business (NiB)

As sponsor of NiB’s 2023 research project, we’ve incorporated key insights into our neurodiversity strategy, better empowering leaders to support neurodivergent people.

Trans in the City

Supports us in ensuring our transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming colleagues feel they belong.

Committed to change

We’ve carefully selected a few change leaders to influence our efforts.

CEO Action

Commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Change the Race Ratio

UK businesses collaborating to build inclusive and diverse workplaces.

Race at Work Charter

Commitment to improve quality of opportunity in the workplace.

Valuable 500

500 companies leading the way to end disability exclusion.

Our DEI reports

Browse our progress in breaking down barriers in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Global DEI Strategy

Our plan for building a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

UK Gender Pay Gap Report

Progress against our long-term strategy toward gender equality at Sage.

Sustainability and Society Report

How we’re using our resources to back a generation of diverse, sustainable businesses.

UK Ethnicity Pay Gap Report

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