Post-Covid Workplaces Can Close the Autism Gap
The world can’t afford to keep squandering the skills and potential of adults with disabilities. Now is our chance to act.
Iterators LLC, photographed in 2018. The Boston-based software-testing company has a neurodiverse workforce.
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The coronavirus pandemic, with its lockdowns and travel bans, has prompted an unprecedented shakeup of everything we thought we knew about daily labor. How we work, where and when. There’s never been a better time to also reexamine who toils with us.
For many companies, that has meant championing diversity, a crucial consideration for blue-chip employers eager to widen the talent pool, and please increasingly demanding investors. There have certainly been encouraging steps toward far better disclosure around race and gender.