By Patrick Bardsley, co-founder and CEO of Spectrum Designs Foundation, an enterprise of businesses employing people on the autism spectrum.
Companies are increasingly recognizing the far-reaching benefits that a disability-inclusive workforce can bring. At a time when recruitment and retention challenges are being felt across all sectors and business sizes, the best companies can gain an advantage by being disability inclusive. In fact, companies that have begun proactively onboarding neurodiverse workers, for example, have found retention rates of 90-100%, according to an article published by the Connecticut Manufacturers Resource Group.
In this article, I’m sharing five tips on how you can successfully incorporate neurodiverse employees