People With Disabilities Want Paychecks Not Pity: Here's How Businesses Are Helping

Companies that embrace and improve their policies and practices for inclusion of disabilities in the workforce significantly outperform their peers.

People With Disabilities Want Paychecks Not Pity: Here's How Businesses Are Helping

Despite reports that U.S. unemployment continues to drop, most people with disabilities are still unemployed. And, despite the recent focus on hiring a diverse workforce, developing disability inclusion practices has lagged far behind. Until now. New research from Accenture, in partnership with Disability: IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), reveals that companies that embrace and improve their policies and practices for inclusion of disabilities in the workforce significantly outperform their peers. Research from the Getting to Equal: The Disability Inclusion Advantage shows that 45 companies championing disability inclusion experienced on average:

28% higher revenue
twice the net income
30% better performance on economic profit margins
and were twice as likely to have total shareholder returns that outperformed their peers

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