Accommodation information is used to track impacts to individuals when business decisions are being made to certain areas to evaluate impacts and mitigate risks, conflicts, and provide support to improve employee satisfaction. In the last year, Accommodation information allowed the company to create a business case for all entrance [...]
Fidelity has a centralized Leave of Absence and Accommodation Team. Candidates and Associates call an 800# or send an email and are assigned to Sr. Accommodation Specialists whose primary responsibility is to engage in the interactive dialogue process to find accommodation solutions. This team also connects with Enable, the [...]
EYs two full time accommodation specialists respond to all US disability accommodation requests. They work closely with EYs Global Assistive Technology Leader, who consults on equipment for individuals and across their workforce, providing training and troubleshooting and collaborating with procurement on purchasing services. Ergonomic requests are addressed by the [...]
EY’s medical accommodation specialist fields all US disabilities accommodations requests. Ergonomic requests are addressed by their trained and certified ergonomics team, who conduct individual ergonomic assessments and make recommendations on equipment and work style changes to help people work more comfortably and healthfully. EY has 28 certified ergonomic assessors [...]
Cisco provides ergonomic assessments in the workplace that provide adaptive technology and accommodation adjustments if needed.
In May 2019, Centene hired an ADA accommodations SME to build and lead a centralized accommodation operation to transition its reasonable accommodation process from 130+ field HR generalists to a team of ADA experts to provide a better end-user experience for both employees and managers. This HR ADA Team [...]
Boston Scientific (BSC) trains Human Resources and Managers on the steps of the reasonable accommodation process: notify, assess, determine and review. Notify is when BSC becomes aware of employee circumstances that may require an accommodation. Assess is when BSC gathers information necessary to make a decision regarding an employee’s [...]
The firm’s long-standing practice of covering all accommodation costs through centralized funding has been modeled by other companies as the ideal way to handle workplace accommodations. By doing so, it removes any concerns about cost impact to individual team or department budgets. Examples of costs covered include, but are [...]
The centralized accommodations budget ensures that cost is not a limiting factor in identifying and implementing accommodations solutions. In addition, the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a source of information on assistive technology and other accommodation resources available at Aetna.
Accenture offers a Global Adjustment Request Tool to provide employees from across countries to raise their accommodation request with agility and ease. The process has dedicated case managers who identify the solution, interface with functional points of contact, and solve the request within defined service level agreements. With a [...]