The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023: Key statistics and graphics

Review the key findings from the research.

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

Infographic 1

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.

Disability workplace adjustment statistics

Infographic 2

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.
Disability workplace adjustment statistics

Infographic 3

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.
Disability workplace adjustment statistics

Infographic 4

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.
Disability workplace adjustment statistics

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.
Disability workplace adjustment statistics

Infographic 6

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.
Disability workplace adjustment statistics

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.
Disability workplace adjustment statistics

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.
Disability workplace adjustment statistics

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