Remote work acceptance has helped boost employment for the second-largest minority group in the U.S.: adults with disabilities.
Workers with disabilities had been asking to work remotely for decades before the pandemic and had consistently heard companies say "no," Thomas Foley, executive director of the National Disability Institute , tells Axios.
During the pandemic, when "we all realized that ... many of us could work remotely ... that was disproportionately positive for people with disabilities," he says.Many employers who may have had misperceptions about recruiting workers with disabilities have shifted their perspectives as the labor market tightened and they've started to reach out to NDI and its American Dream Employment Network , co-director Kevin Nickerson tells Axios.
"Employers that maybe didn't look at this subset of folks ... now were forced to [and] maybe it was the wrong reason to come to the table ... But I think they're going to be pleasantly surprised with who they find as employees," says Nickerson.The labor force participation rate for workers with disabilities has increased alongside the increase in people with long COVID.
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