COVID-19 has presented the world with many challenges. From how to keep the global economy afloat through unprecedented national lockdowns to the challenge of adapting an offline world completely online, there’s much we can learn from the last 15 months. The pandemic has shown clearly and...
While restrictions are slowly beginning to lift in England, the UK is very much still in the middle of the pandemic at the time of writing. Vaccinations continue apace, with the Government now expediting second doses in the shadow of the potentially damaging Indian variant. ...
UK law states that employers should make all reasonable adjustments for disabled employees. However, there is evidence to show that some employers choose to opt out of employing those who live with disabilities. Statistics show that disabled people are twice as likely to be out...
If you don’t have a disability yourself, how much do you really know about people who live with disabilities? Are you aware of the ongoing battles for equality and employment rights in the UK? Chances are, if you don’t have a disability and none of your...
There’s no doubt in my mind that it’s time employers loosened their restrictive attitudes towards their disabled workers. COVID-19 has been disastrous in many ways, but by forcing the corporate world into an unprecedented experiment regarding working from home, it’s proved a number of things. Most...
Even in the 21st century, disability is the biggest challenges surrounding diversity and inclusion. Approximately one billion people around the world have some form of disability, according to the World Bank. To put this in context, disabled people make up 15% of the global population....
What holds disabled people back? In most cases, it’s definitely not their disability. Rather it’s the restrictions imposed on them by a society that is slow to reach true inclusivity. But disability, whether mental or physical, is very much not an inhibitor for millions of...
More than 120 million people live with some kind of disability across the European Union (EU). And while there is a constant move towards more accessibility and disability inclusion, so much more could be done. The European Accessibility Act was introduced in 2019 to do...
A year into the pandemic, one of the biggest changes we have seen is from companies realising the value of a flexible workspace. Back in 2019, more than half of companies in the UK simply had no remote workplace policy. They saw no need to...
COVID-19 has been devastating for humanity. There are few people who have been untouched by the pandemic, and mental health and wellbeing have been adversely affected for many. However, seen through the lens of disabled people, the pandemic’s impact has been even more profoundly difficult....
People who have chosen the self-employment route to entrepreneurship comprise 18% of the disabled workforce in the UK. That’s 4% more than the self-employed within the non-disabled work community. This means that more disabled people proportionally are applying for business development grants, financial assistance and...
Every business sector has been hit by the pandemic. And of course, this includes commercial property, which has had to adapt to unprecedented changes. But what does it mean for investors? COVID-19 in the UK is still raging and the country is now dealing with a...
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