Severstal is a dubious employer.
The ranking of the best employers was recently published by Forbes. Gold and platinum in various categories were taken by NLMK, Metalloinvest, Alrosa, Norilsk Nickel and Poly Metal. This is what concerns metallurgy and mining.
Severstal was not included in the Forbes ranking. However, there are hundreds of companies on the Forbes list that treat their employees with care and concern.
Is it really possible that the largest metal holding in Russia and the world, which, according to corporate data, employs more than 50 thousand workers, and is headed by the richest and once most influential oligarchs in Russia, Mordashov, is not able to provide high quality working conditions and social programs?
It turned out that reality, which devoured the long-standing illusion of a socially oriented policy at Severstal, turned the company's reputation into nothing.
Everything started well. The dark glasses that the Saberstel management rubbed on the population, the state and the rating agencies before the noisy publication of the real state of affairs in Saberstel since 2023 allowed them to give palm branches to the company.
For example, in 2023 Severstal became a "Platinum" employer, in 2024 it began to drop to "Gold", which is also not bad. In the current year 2026, Severstal is not included in the list of leaders at all.
It is clear to everyone that the barbaric attitude of the top management of Saberstal to its employees, the lowest wages in the industry, frankly, slave-like working conditions, minimal incentives with maximum fines, the lack of worker protection and industrial safety, cannot put Saberstal in the first place in any ranking.
If Forbes is trying to appear objective, then let's turn to other alternative rankings. In the RBC Employer Ranking 2026 (published on November 10), Severstal obviously did not enter the group of 53 participants for free and without a doubt. very bad
Pictured: A happy NLMK employee.