Key statistics

We have collated the key statistics from The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023. If you would like this document in a different format, please email us.

Download The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023 – key statistics (accessible PDF)

Infographics

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The speed of getting workplace adjustments has improved by four per cent since 2019, but 1 in 8 disabled people are waiting over a year to get the adjustments they need.

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Disabled people are having to ‘push’ for the workplace adjustments they need.

• 78 per cent told us they had to initiate the process.
• Only 10 per cent said it was easy.

 

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a long-term impact on adjustments. Of disabled people working with adjustments:

• 14 per cent are still shielding, isolating, or restricting contact with others.
• 28 per cent have felt pressurized to return to the workplace but don’t want to.
• 52 per cent said the pandemic was the first time they could work in a way they that best suited them.

 

 

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We asked disabled employees about job satisfaction and their plans for the next 2 years:

• 62 per cent want to be promoted to a more senior and higher paid role in their current organisation.
• 45 per cent want the same in a different organisation.
• 28 per cent want to leave their current employer because they don’t feel they have been treated well.
• Only 18 per cent are very satisfied with their current work situation.

 

Infographic 5

Disabled employees experience poor behaviours at work because of their disability or long term condition:

• 40 per cent have felt patronised or ‘put down’ by other people at work.
• 38 per cent have been bullied, harassed or discriminated against at work.

 

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Adjustments are an important part of disability workplace inclusion but barriers still remain for disabled people.

• 49 per cent said adjustments help them stay in their job.
• 48 per cent said adjustments help them to be more productive.
• 56 per cent told us that workplace barriers still remain even with adjustments.

 

Infographic 7

Managers’ confidence in making adjustments has improved, but workplace health and adjustments-related services could support them better.

• 64 per cent of managers are very confident to have a conversation with an employee who tells them they have a disability or a condition.
• 81 per cent said it is a lot easier to make adjustments when an employee tells them they have a disability or condition.
• Only 25 per cent of managers agreed a lot that occupational health helped them understand how to manage and support their employees.

 

Infographic 8

Disabled graduates have a very different experience of adjustments at university to when they move into work. Graduates told us that they:

• Don’t know where to go for support.
• Don’t know how to ask for support.
• Don’t know what support is available to them at work.