Employers ’ Perspectives on Accommodating and Retaining Employees with Newly Acquired Disabilities: An Exploratory Study

Conclusions Consistent with prior literature, employers with greater access to resources and better ability to communicate generally made greater effort to accommodate and retain employees with disabilities. However, employers in the study did not deploy these resources and processes consistently when making decisions about whether and how to provide accommodations to workers with disabilities; employee-level characteristics affected their actions. Policy makers should consider intervention approaches that reach workers who may be overlooked by employers with scarce resources.
Source: Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research