The Workforce of Tomorrow: How Trane Technologies is Building an Inclusive and Uplifting Culture
BANGALORE, India, Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Trane Technologies has recently been recognized as one of India's Top 100 Best Companies to Work For 2025 by Great Place to Work®. This prestigious accolade, along with placements in the Top 50 for Innovation, Top 25 for IT & IT-BPM, and Top 100 Best Workplaces for Women, highlights the company's commitment to creating an exceptional workplace and driving meaningful change. Efforts to combat global climate change, improve lives in communities, and lead the industry in innovation are central to Trane Technologies' mission. Employees worldwide are united by a shared purpose: to boldly challenge what's possible for a sustainable world.
The 2030 Sustainability Commitments serve as the foundation of Trane Technologies' sustainability strategy and growth. These commitments guide the company in driving innovation and delivering value for customers, reducing environmental impact, and fostering engagement with employees and communities. The recognition received for this work underscores the company's dedication to making a positive impact on the world.
The commitment towards creating an Opportunity for All is the cornerstone of Trane Technologies' culture, a culture that appreciates and values the diversity each person brings.
Meeting a New Generation of Expectations
Today's Gen Z and Gen Y employees value authenticity, equity, flexibility, and purpose. According to the 2025 Deloitte Gen Z and Millennial Survey, 40% of Gen Zs and 36% of Millennials say they have rejected a job or assignment because it did not align with their personal values. This shift is driving how we co-design inclusive and effective workplaces.
9 out of every 10 employees at Trane Technologies in India are Gen Z or Gen Y, with all most 1 in 3 being born at or after the turn of the century. Trane Technologies has built an authentic and inclusive culture that aims to equip everyone- regardless of age, gender or background- to become their best professional and personal selves. This means a culture centered around progressive work models that enable focus with flexibility, holistic growth over judgment and impact over insulation. Our culture thrives on:
- Flexible Work: where engagement that fosters mental and emotional presence- in addition to physical- is the focus. Here, trust, autonomy, and authenticity naturally take center-stage. Flexible work at Trane Technologies means employees can and should take ownership of their time and impact, and that integrity rather than surveillance becomes the guardrail. It means that life events- happy or otherwise, like the birth of a child or demise of a loved one- are accorded particular leave for the time and space they deserve. Majority follow the hybrid work model and they choose the days of the week they come into office.
- Human-centric Performance & Potential Development: the kind where employees are viewed as holistic beings, not resources, and managers and employees engage not just to discuss goals and achievement but also fulfillment and purpose that brings 'soul in the game'. At Trane Technologies, managers are, first and foremost, coaches not supervisors and employees are empowered to be architects of their own fulfillment.
And beyond the performance of the employee there's also the joys and frailties of the human. This means recognizing the impact technology, culture and society have on our lives- whether that's the effect social media and digital immersion have had on mental wellbeing- of ourselves, a child or family members. Mental and physical health, situated in Indian family and sociopolitical context, are fundamental to Trane Technologies' philosophy of living our human potential to the fullest. At Trane Technologies, employees take charge of their physical and mental wellbeing through expert outsider sessions, Employee Assistance Programs and lively ongoing internal conversations- including on themes as raw or sensitive as Importance of Vulnerability and Raising Special-Needs Children. - Continuous, Cross-Functional Development: Moving from role-driven to capability-driven professional development at Trane Technologies has meant that employees are equipped to self-assess, plan and explore diverse career paths, participate in cross-functional training, AI sandboxes and realistic simulations. Learning Labs, organized once a quarter, lets employees explore not just the skills but also the art of career navigation from their own experienced peers. Cross-industry mentoring through partner initiatives, like CII-IWN, offers women at Trane Technologies sought-after opportunities to learn how both expertise and voice can be leveraged for career mobility
- Recognition That Matters — In Real Time
Meaningful Recognition at Trane Technologies is a lived expression of a belief that recognizes genuinely, quickly and publicly. It also means giving employees line-of-sight to impact, for instance via enabling employees to see how their work contributes to on-the-ground environmental and social progress where Recognition and Performance are tied to ESG goals. - Challenging what's possible for a sustainable world: Operation Possible, founded on the principles of open collaboration and inclusive platforms, enables employees from all functions and locations to submit ideas, collaborate, and develop practical solutions to pressing real-world problems through its award-winning open crowd-solving platform. Like the Cooling Cart: a cart for street-vendors that leverages the latest innovations in passive cooling technology skyrocketed the profitability of fruit and vegetable vendors from a modest 8% to an impressive 48%, transforming livelihoods in the process.
Flexibility, Human-centrism and Integration at Trane Technologies Inclusion isn't a one-time affair but embedded in every system, policy, and conversation we have. Employee Resource Groups (ERG) including the Extraordi-Naaris network for women in tech to CEO Day of Understanding, and Bridging Connections sessions ensure open conversations about bias, balance, and belonging across stakeholders are woven into the organizational fabric. Learning paths like Inclusive Leadership reinforce inclusive leadership at all levels by equipping all employees with the skills for Allyship- a crucial enabler for real Inclusion.
Trane Technologies is not just responding to generational shifts but anticipating them. The culture isn't built for Gen Z or Millennials alone, it's built for every individual who wants to grow, lead, and change the world.
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