Accessible and inclusive workplaces reflect an organization’s culture and inclusive policies. Inclusive workplaces provide accessibility to all. Inclusive workplaces generate mutual acceptance from all employees. Absence of accessibility and acceptance creates exclusion.
The limitations that people with identified disabilities experience in their daily lives come from many barriers ranging from attitudes to public spaces: Inclusion and diversity will improve both.
Workplaces that are structurally designed for inclusion may change attitudes and create a larger sense of belonging, reducing stigma. Workplaces designed for inclusion accommodate the widest array of people possible and benefit all citizens and employees.
However, because most public spaces are designed by ‘able’ people with little experience or no consideration about differences, the spaces become inaccessible to many individuals. It is these spaces that are defective as they prevent many skilled and otherwise abled individuals to equitable access to these public spaces and workplaces.
In the day-to-day activities of people with disabilities, it is the spaces that are defective, not the individuals.
Inclusive workplaces create healthier workplace culture for all employees.
True. They also increase a company's capacity to attract and retain talent.