Collecting Global Employee Disability Data

Research report – Collecting Global Employee Disability Data

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Through this research – sponsored by HSBC – we aimed to understand the reasons global organisations gather employee disability data, the common challenges associated with its collection and also to highlight the things that have been helpful to any progress organisations have been able to make.

This research has been undertaken in partnership with Business Disability Forum’s Global Disability Data Working Group (Working Group), a dedicated subgroup of our Global Taskforce, whose purpose is to uncover key challenges and promote best practices associated with the collection of employee disability data worldwide.

For this research, we drew on the experiences and opinions of Global Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Leads, in a number of formats. These included Working Group discussions, depth interviews with Working Group members and an online survey, which was promoted to the BDF Global Taskforce, all BDF members and made publicly available, so that it was open to anyone who held Global D&I responsibilities to respond.

Contributions and support for this research

Many organisations gave Business Disability Forum their time and support in putting this report together, via participation in the Global Disability Data Working Group – a subgroup of Business Disability Forum’s Global Taskforce – and in-depth interviews:

• Accenture
• Alexander Mann Solutions
• Allianz
• Anglo American
• Baker and McKenzie
• Freshfields
• GSK
• HSBC
• Lilly
• LinkedIn
• Shell
• Unilever

We would like to thank them, along with the anonymous participants of the online survey, for all their time and support.

We particularly thank our Partner HSBC for sponsoring this research and report and for Co-Chairing Business Disability Forum’s Global Disability Data Working Group.

Recommendations and key considerations

These documents are part of series that summarise key considerations and successful approaches to collecting global employee disability data from our research sponsored by HSBC.

The key considerations are:

1. Why do organisations collect global employee disability data?
2. What global employee disability data do organisations collect?
3. How do organisations collect global employee disability data?
4. Key challenges to collecting global employee disability data.
5. Key enablers to collecting global employee disability data.

We also summarise the key recommendations, which go over the fundamentals of collecting global employee disability data. These are:

• Purpose
• Fundamentals
• Leadership
• Culture.