Industry reports consistently rate workers with disabilities as average or above average when it comes to employee performance, attendance, retention and safety. So why are so many people with disabilities unemployed
The No. 1 barrier preventing many companies from hiring people with disabilities continues to be “attitudes at all corporate levels,” according to a report published in the February edition of T + D magazine, the trade publication for the American Society for Training & Development. The report is also available via podcast.
Although employers who hire people with disabilities often experience less turnover, less absenteeism and higher productivity, front-line staff and hiring managers continue to have reservations about hiring workers with disabilities due to preconceived myths, according to the report’s authors, Jenell L.S. Wittmer, an assistant professor of management at the University of Toledo, and Leslie Wilson, president and CEO of Wilson Resources.
