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Labor shortage, remote work boosted employment of people with disabilities

January 24, 2023

Via: HR Dive
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Employment numbers for individuals with disabilities have not only recovered to pre-pandemic levels, but exceeded those benchmarks and even pre-Great Recession levels, according to a Jan. 23 report.

That finding stands in stark contrast to employment numbers for individuals without disabilities, which have not yet reached pre-pandemic levels, according to the report from the Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability.

The cause may be twofold, the organizations said. First, labor shortages may have driven hiring managers “to break outside of their comfort zones to consider different segments of workers,” said report co-author John O’Neill, director of the Center for Employment and Disability Research at the Kessler Foundation, in a press release announcing the findings.

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