Disability Awareness & Diversity in the Workplace
TecAccess provides training and consulting to improve disability awareness and create diversity within the workplace. From educating your staff at all levels of the workforce to assisting organizations with training and hiring employees with disabilities, TecAccess offers a full suite of solutions.
Disability employment enables businesses to recruit and hire from an untapped qualified labor pool. Economists indicate that there will be a serious shortage of qualified employees in the near future due to the retirement of baby boomers; TecAccess believes that persons with disabilities can fill this gap.
TecAccess helps employers:
- Increase their workforce with a qualified and dedicated pool of employees
- Increase consumer and employee loyalty
- Increase positive brand recognition and public image
- Increase sales by leveraging a new market segment
In terms of accommodations, TecAccess proves that costs are minimal. In fact, a recent Able Trust Employer Attitude Study demonstrated that 73% of businesses report that their employees with disabilities actually did not require any accommodations at all. And, 61% said that the average costs of accommodations were $500 or less. While 29% even stated that accommodations were $100 or less.
Best of all, study after study demonstrates that employers who have taken the steps to place people with disabilities into valuable roles in their workplace have very positive attitudes towards such employees. The Able Trust Study of Employer Attitudes, for example, shows that businesses with formal disability policies and hiring practices have more positive attitudes towards individuals with disabilities. The study also shows that those who hire people with disabilities would most certainly do it again.
An impressive America´s Strength Foundation study by Neil Romano, performed in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts, recently released the findings of a national survey which closely looked at consumer attitudes towards companies that hire people with disabilities. The results of the America´s Strength survey prove that the public views hiring a person with a disability as the socially responsible thing to do, and that businesses that have hired employees with disabilities view hiring a person with a disability as a gainful business practice. Study after study continues to produce the same results all showing that on average, employees with disabilities represent a loyal workforce, one that is good for your bottom line.
Examples:
- The bottom line is clear and seen in countless examples all around us. Take Pizza Hut for example, a leading employer of people with disabilities who has stated that their retention rates are four to five times higher than that of non-disabled workers, saving over $8 million through reduced turnover.
- Frank Coombs, owner of an IHOP Restaurant, has stated similar results. He says that employees with disabilities are loyal, long-term workers in an industry where high employee turnover is the norm. Training each new employee costs IHOP about $1000, according to Coombs, and that hiring employees with disabilities means operational savings.
- Beyond operational cost, Cingular has witnessed how employees with disabilities can help their company tap into emerging markets, and states, "Employees with disabilities can also provide greater insights into the needs of older customers and those with disabilities."
- Similarly, The Department of Education reports that in their experience employees with disabilities can help craft effective marketing strategies to reach this lucrative market for companies that hire them.
TecAccess´ Solution
TecAccess is known worldwide as a leader in disability employment and is positioned as such to assist industry and government in their own disability employment initiatives. Our fully managed staffing solutions provide clients with a complete suite of long and short term staffing options, from selection and pre-screening to placement and post-placement services. Handling every phase of a staffing project, TecAccess can provide an organization with employees with disabilities, including Veterans with Disabilities, to serve in positions such as web developers, call center representatives, and beyond. In addition, TecAccess offers disability awareness, sensitivity, and diversity training for your organization.
