Ready, Willing and Disabled
Employees: key findings
"Sometimes if the employer cannot handle the idea of employing a 'different' person they wrongly assume the rest of the staff won't either."
- 77% of employees said that staff attitudes wouldn't be a barrier to their company employing a disabled person. This is in contrast to disabled people's view that staff attitudes are the third biggest barrier to disabled people getting work.
- 23% of employees thought the fact that their company had never employed a disabled person before might prevent their company employing a disabled person. A further 28% didn't know if this would be a barrier.
- Over half of all employee respondents disagreed that public transport was a barrier to getting to work suggesting there is still a significant lack of awareness about the barriers disabled people face within the built environment.
- Some 26% of employees thought that disabled people would need more help and support from their colleagues and managers and that this would be a barrier to employing disabled people. A further 22% didn't know. The comments from respondents suggest that many people think disabled people won't pull their weight and that employing a disabled person could lead to them having to work harder.
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