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Creating an Inclusive Environment: Supporting Employees with Disabilities

Creating an inclusive work environment is crucial for your business’s long-term growth. An intentional approach to inclusivity can reduce turnover, boost morale, and help your company avoid expensive lawsuits.   Intentionally promoting inclusivity can help you tap into a larger talent pool, too. One in six people has a disability, meaning millions of applicants are…

Attracting New Hires With Disabilities

Showcase Your Inclusivity: Attracting New Hires With Disabilities

By Jesse Clark of Soulful Travel With competition for workers still high, employers need to take into consideration all possible candidates when recruiting new hires. Here we discusses how employers can make their workplace more inclusive and inviting for persons with disabilities.   Inclusive Language in Job Descriptions It is important to consider using language…

Nurturing Career Growth After Unexpected Disabilities

Nurturing Career Growth After Unexpected Disabilities

Disability is hardly ever predictable. Accidents happen, and conditions can arise or worsen at any time. The professional world doesn’t stop spinning, waiting for people with disabilities to adapt to a new lifestyle. However, it’s certainly possible for employers to support potential and current employees when navigating disabilities.   Employers can close the disability inclusion…

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Key Considerations for Employers Looking to Close the Disability Inclusion Gap

By Anthony Favry Editor’s Note: Today, around 17% of the world’s population experience some form of disability – making individuals with disabilities the largest minority group in the world. Despite making up a large percentage of the world’s population, individuals with disabilities often lack access to employment. In fact, compared to non-disabled workers, the global…

10 Causes of Disability Every HR Leader Should Know

When most people consider disability, they picture something catastrophic happening—an injury on the ski slope, or a speeding car hurtling into theirs—and, for the most part assume it can never happen to them. That’s why human resources experts often find it challenging to convince their employees of the importance of disability insurance even though you…

Ready for Open Enrollment? Three Steps To Getting In Shape for a Great Season

For HR folks, the fall is sort of like their own version of the retail holiday season or the big football final…that’s because it’s open enrollment, the time when employees are able to make major changes to their benefits plans without penalties. And just like retailers start planning their holiday promotions early, so should the…