4 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Disability-Inclusion Practices
Despite articles on the advantages that people with disabilities can offer employers, too many companies hold themselves back when it comes to hiring people with disabilities.
Why disability inclusion is everyone’s business
Now more than ever, businesses are seeking ways to boost innovation and productivity in a sustainable way. But many business leaders overlook a huge opportunity when it comes to realizing this ambition: the potential of more than one billion people worldwide who have some form of disability.
Disability inclusion in the workplace: removing the barriers to finding top talent
Is disability and inclusion in the workplace important?
Do Your D&I Efforts Include People with Disabilities?
There are more than one billion people worldwide – around 15% of the population – living with a disability.
Why Hire Disabled Workers? 4 Powerful (and Inclusive) Companies Answer
One theme we commonly hear when discussing disability (or any minority) employment is that it is the right thing to do. However, from the perspective of businesses that perpetuate discrimination in their hiring and retention of workers with disabilities, this message doesn’t seem to be enough.
How To Include People with Disabilities
Inclusion is not like a light switch that simply gets turned on or off. It is more like a dimmer switch that you push forward into the light with intentionality, focus, and performance metrics. It is a journey, not a simple checklist.
Top 10 Causes of Disabilities in the U.S.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau , nearly one in every five Americans is living with a disability.
Disability inclusion at work: What it is and why it matters
Disability inclusion at work is about more than hiring people with disabilities. True inclusion is about embracing difference.
What are Invisible Disabilities?
Do people sometimes have difficulty understanding how your symptoms such as extreme fatigue, dizziness, pain, and cognitive impairments can be so debilitating to you but can even be met with hostility by society at large?
It’s Perfectly OK To Call A Disabled Person ‘Disabled,’ And Here's Why
We've been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
Captain Scott Smiley
A 2003 West Point graduate, Smiley is one of 60 soldiers who have been seriously injured but have been able to continue their military career as part of the Wounded Warrior Transition Unit begun by the Army since the War in Iraq.
Myths About Hiring Blind Or Partially Sighted Employees
Approximately half a million Canadians live with significant vision loss. And every year more than 50,000 of us will lose our sight.
Down Syndrome Facts, Myths and Truths
There are more than 400,000 people living with Down syndrome in the United States.
Microsoft chief: How to treat employees with disabilities better
The chief accessibility officer speaks from experience
'It doesn't cost more to hire someone with a disability'
Hiring a person with disability shouldn’t be seen as an issue to be overcome.
Fired for being fat: is obesity a disability?
Adult obesity is increasing globally and HR leaders are facing more employee health and mobility issues related to obesity.
9 Simple Ways Your Workplace Can Be More Inclusive of People with Disabilities
Disability-rights advocates want the push to hire and retain Americans with disabilities to endure long beyond this month.
Did You Know? Invisible Disabilities
Did you know that while some disabilities are visible to onlookers, some other disabilities are not obvious, which is often mentioned by experienced individuals as “invisible” or “hidden” disabilities?
Increasing employment of people with disabilities: good practices
The unemployment rates of people with disabilities are far higher than the numbers for non-disabled population. Nevertheless, numerous good practices show us which kind of support and assistance should be provided to people with disabilities to minimize inequalities in the labour market.