The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2019

Research into the experience of disabled employees, managers, and senior leaders of requesting, making, and reviewing workplace adjustments.

About The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey

Business Disability Forum released the first edition of The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey, sponsored and supported by Microlink, in 2019. The research looked at the experience of disabled employees, managers, and senior leaders of requesting, making, and reviewing adjustments for disabled employees. We repeated The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey in 2023.

Key findings

80 per cent employees said their adjustments have helped them stay in their job and help them be more productive.
60 per cent enjoyed their job more since having adjustment in place.
60 per cent of employees with adjustments do not have all the adjustments they need.
34 per cent of employees have not asked for adjustments because they fear their manager would treat them differently.
Only 30 per cent of employees were confident their employer would make adjustments for them if they were needed in the future.
25 per cent employees waited over a year to get their adjustments in place.
Only 24 per cent employees with adjustments regularly speak to their employer about how well their adjustments are working.
Only 19 per cent employees said adjustments remove all barriers they experience in the workplace.