Nearly 100 leaders have signed a letter urging other Fortune 500 companies to join them in furthering disability equality About 100 company leaders are pressing their colleagues to improve the workplace for people with disabilities and evaluate their inclusion of people with disabilities, Disability:IN announced Thursday. The letter’s newest [...]
Small business owners often go into the new year with the goal of strengthening and expanding their business. Like all new year’s resolutions, these plans can be limited when business owners are hit with the day-to-day challenges of life. However, there are some realistic resolutions that small business owners [...]
The surgeon general's recent mental health warning is something business leaders and managers shouldn't ignore, according to a leading diversity consultant Last week, the surgeon general published a report on the "devastating" state of youth mental health. The report is a reminder that many American workers are struggling too [...]
For many individuals with disabilities of working age, pursuing traditional employment can be a daunting prospect strewn with challenges and uncertainties. A good number of these relate to whether, in a competitive jobs market, it will even be possible to gain meaningful employment, given widespread attitudinal barriers towards employing [...]
The Equity Talk: People with disabilities get hired less, make less money, and are often excluded from media. Here's how one woman is leading the charge to fix that. When Jill Houghton talks about people with disabilities, her eyes light up, her voice projects, and she flashes a smile that [...]
The Equity Talk: Insider launches new series focused on how CEOs are advancing racial and social justice It was the summer of 2020, and George Floyd had just been murdered by the police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis. The blaring sounds of helicopters, protest chants, and police sirens filled the [...]
Disability:IN is helping companies hire more people with disabilities while expanding the global conversation around diversity, equity, and inclusion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become hot topics in corporate America. In the wake of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, and a pandemic that galvanized millions of workers to [...]
People with disabilities still face barriers finding work during the pandemic—here’s how companies can help For nearly 20 months, debates about the future of work have dominated meetings and Twitter feeds as the coronavirus pandemic upended every aspect of our jobs from commutes to office dress codes. These conversations continue [...]
The definition of what it means to be an “ethical” company has always been fluid, but today we are at an inflection point in the breadth and expansion of ethics and the roles of General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officers. Companies are addressing how their technology impacts consumers, how [...]
The SEC is warming up to calls to include people with disabilities in diversity reporting requirements for public company boards. Allison Lee, the longest-tenured Democratic commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, said there’s merit to counting individuals with disabilities as diverse members of boards, as women and ethnic [...]
