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...
COVID-19 is a once-in-a-generation (Generation COVID) disaster and the pandemic continues to do untold amounts of damage to our collective future. But among the hardest hit are the youngest workers in the system. For an entire generation, education, higher education and job plans are in limbo....
Accurate global data for the employment situation facing disabled people is difficult to co-ordinate. But we do have access to enough data to confidently say that there is a very real unemployment crisis facing those who live with disabilities. And this, of course, has been...
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