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High productivity and reduced costs
Business benefits
- Ability to exploit the enabling potential of technology
- Better people management and increased supervisor skills
- Reduced health & safety costs, inc. lower accident costs, fewer lost working days, lower incidence of work related disability
- Healthy enabling working environments and reduced sickness absence
- Efficient use of people through timely provision of reasonable adjustments
- Improved employee morale & engagement as people realise they themselves would be treated fairly should they become disabled
Sources
- [i] Labour Force Survey, Spring 2005
- [ii] Carr-Ruffino, N.) Diversity success strategies. Boston: Butterworth Heinemann, 1999.
- [iii] Glenn Pransky, Liberty Center for Disability Research
- [iv] Churchill, Minty and Friend case study, 2005