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.

Globally, there are over one billion people with disabilities. They are now more active in our society than ever before. Yet employment rates are low and many barriers to work still exist.

Explore this InfoStory to find out why employing people with disabilities makes good business sense for private companies, and how you can help promote inclusion.

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.

The inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace is no longer absent from the business agenda. Nonetheless, managers still struggle in implementing inclusion strategies effectively. Based on examples from 15 multinational companies, employers’ organizations and business networks, this publication presents key factors leading to the successful inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace.

A video by Mental Health Europe on the Individual Placement and Support method. Shot and edited by Silvana Enculescu and Yves Brand.

Time to Challenge is the national project focusing on employment. Time to Challenge is confronting mental health discrimination in the workplace and supporting people's legal right to be treated fairly.

Time to Challenge is the national project focusing on employment. Time to Challenge is confronting mental health discrimination in the workplace and supporting people's legal right to be treated fairly.