Key topics
Workplace adjustments
Reasonable adjustments, often also referred to as reasonable accommodations, ensure meaningful equal opportunities for employees at the workplace, so their skills and talents can be used to full capacity. By recognizing and adapting for individual needs, companies enhance productivity and engagement and are seen to truly value the diversity of their people -thereby contributing to greater business success.
Promoting diversity and inclusion through workplace adjustments: A practical guide
The practical guide Promoting diversity and inclusion through workplace adjustments is the third module in the ILO’s Promoting Equity series and aims to assist employers of all sizes and in all economic sectors, to provide reasonable accommodation at all stages of the employment cycle. Reasonable adjustments at the workplace, often times also referred to as reasonable accommodations, may include adaptations to the job, including modification of machinery and equipment and/or of an employee’s job content, working time and work organization. Reasonable adjustments aim to provide equal opportunities for employees at the workplace, so their skills and talents can be used to full capacity. By recognizing and accommodating individual needs, companies create work environments that truly welcome the diversity of their staff and thereby contribute to greater business success.
Adjusting for success: Reasonable accommodations at work
The session "Adjusting for success: Reasonable accommodations at work" at the ILO Global Business and Disability Network (GBDN) 11th global annual conference “From Margin to Mainstream: Disability in Business” on 27th and 28th November 2024, explored how reasonable adjustments aim to provide equal opportunities for employees at the workplace, so their skills and talents can be used to full capacity. By recognising and accommodating individual needs, companies create work environments that truly welcome the diversity of their staff, including people with disabilities, and thereby contribute to greater business success.
Exploring Reasonable Accommodation for Persons with Disabilities, 13th United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights
The session "Exploring Reasonable Accommodation for Persons with Disabilities" at the 13th United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, 25-27 November 2024, discussed the concept of "reasonable accommodations", sometimes referred to as "reasonable adjustments", as a crucial element for upholding the rights of persons with disabilities in the context of business activities, and for strengthening their inclusion in all aspects of society.
Unleashing potential: reasonable accommodations at work
On 17 April 2024, the ILO GBDN held a webinar on reasonable adjustments where Mark Bell from Trinity College Dublin, Andy Garrett from GSK, Sarah Cline from Accenture, and Daniel Mwesigwa Iga from the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry discussed the importance of reasonable adjustments in the workplace and how best to implement them.
How can business promote diversity and inclusion through workplace adjustments?
Mark Bell, Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, explains how reasonable adjustments at the workplace enable employees to bring their full professional potential to work and thereby promote diversity and inclusion as well as contribute to business success.
Disability “Smart” Company
Improving business practices for employees with disabilities is the “smart” thing to do because it leads to improvements for the entire workforce!
Designing workplace adjustment services that deliver – worldwide
In times of COVID-19-related teleworking, it is more important than ever to have effective global company systems for reasonable accommodations in place that effectively work around the world. Hosted by business disability international and the ILO Global Business and Disability Network, the webinar “Designing workplace adjustment services that deliver – worldwide” presented key issues in system design and shared existing good global company practices.
Making Remote Working Work
As part of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network’s work stream “Workplace Adjustment Services”, the masterclass webinar “Making Remote Working Work” addressed issues relevant for those responsible in multinational organisations for ensuring remote working liberates every employee’s productivity, while enhancing their well-being and engagement. Moderated by Susan Scott-Parker (CEO and Founder, business disability international), Nasser Siabi (CEO, Microlink) and Christopher Lee (Managing Director, International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP)) discussed how remote working can be made inclusive and accessible for all.
Disability-confident employers’ toolkit
The disability-confident toolkit is grounded in best corporate practice and offers a complete, step by step, roadmap for business leaders, human resource executives and building property managers on how to foster inclusive workspaces.
As an open source toolkit, you can tailor it to fit your industry, workplace and country. Together we can build more inclusive societies for all.