Adjust Our Workplaces 2021

Sponsored by Microlink

Business Disability Forum’s almost 400 members employ an estimated 20 per cent of the UK workforce and 8 million people worldwide. Back in April 2020, at the start of the pandemic, we asked them how they are responding to the unprecedented challenges of Covid-19 and for their early thoughts on its legacy for the future of work for disabled people – and indeed us all.

In 2019, with the support of our Partner Microlink, Business Disability Forum released our ground-breaking report on “The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey”. It was based on a year spent listening to and analysing the stories and experiences of employees, people managers, senior leaders and other stakeholders when interacting with workplace adjustments processes and talking about getting disability related workplace support put in place.

Two years on, our world has turned upside down. Since the start of the pandemic, we have all been living and working in a way that few – if any – of us could ever have imagined. Businesses across all sectors have had to adapt, overnight, how they operate. Some are surviving. Some are thriving. But, as we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel, what does this all mean for the disabled people they employ?