The Neurodiversity @ Work Playbook: Employee Engagement & Growth Series augments the original Playbook by focusing on best practices and lessons learned related to supporting growth and advancement. This series includes research-based content combined with best practices and lessons learned from over 20 employers including neurotypical and neurodivergent program leads.
Sephora’s All Abilities Hiring Initiative is a structured nine-week paid program leveraging local advocacy groups and educational institutions to train and ultimately recruit talent with disabilities. Since launching in 2017, the program has provided employment opportunities to 246 candidates with disabilities.
Twitter provides accommodation training to all managers; has a centralized accommodation program in the US that’s coordinated by a trained and highly experienced team; and recently created a centralized accommodation budget to remove any financial concern that a manager may have from the consideration of an individual accommodation. [...]
Starbucks offers a free service called Aira in all U.S. stores. The Aira app connects blind and low-vision people to trained, third-party visual interpreters to assist with their orders. Starbucks also has store features to support their deaf and hard of hearing customers including live speech-to-text technology and order [...]
Intuit’s QuickBooks team visited Mozzeria, a deaf-owned and operated pizzeria in San Francisco to discuss the challenges of finding an accountant that communicates with ASL (American Sign Language). This led Intuit to adding Languages, including American Sign Language, to Intuit ProAdvisor accountant profiles.
In 2021, Chemonics launched its first Count Me In campaign to give employees the information they need to self-identify a disability (whether mental or physical), allowing staff to be counted and contribute to the larger culture of inclusion and accommodation companywide.
Organizations with an Amazon Business Account can control their own supplier diversity to include disability. Account owners can select organizations of their choosing that are disability-owned or that support the advancement of disability inclusion as their preferred suppliers.
Unum UK hosts local disability service providers for staff training and awareness, sponsors employees with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions on the Disability Rights UK Leadership Academy Programme, and supports the Superhero Series, the UK’s one and only disability sports series. Further, Unum UK recently received the Disability Confident [...]
Working with a local non-governmental organization, the Nour initiative began by helping seven people with vision loss gain employment in direct sales using a simple Braille label added to packs to make the selling process feasible. Today, Nour has helped to train and find rewarding employment for 70 people [...]