Saturday, July 12, 2014

Different agendas. Why is integration so difficult? (part 2) Hidden disadvantages and hardship

Alright, let's explore the first hypothesis: First insight I want to bring is to look into the recent past. Not excluding disabled people from collective life altogether is a very recent idea. It has started as a tiny spark in the 70's and it has reached mainstream thoughts in the last 20 years, tops. And it's still restricted to some portions of collective life.

By no means society currently really means to include the disabled in all of them (how many disabled TV, movie and music stars can you recall? What about CEOs, or C-level executives at large? Supermodels? High level politicians?) I believe this is a powerful beginning to the answer about integration in the work environment. Companies hire people. Complex human beings, with complex lives beyond the workplace. And the fact is that even if life at work has all the elements and conditions to function (which is rarely the case by the way), it's very likely other life conditions will have a negative spillover onto the work sphere. Everyone knows how difficult life events do affect one's ability to do a job. Can you imagine the effect of these events happening on a daily basis, no estimate date to stop? Are companies willing to deal with this dark side? Statistically, it's likely part of the disability package.

I guess everyone knows the answer here.

In the next part I'll further explore disabled talent supply and demand idea. But please make a comment if you want to read more about each of these individual topics.

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