Britain’s top EDI leaders, representing government and every industry sector, were among over 700 people meeting us in person or online for last Tuesday’s (2 July) Annual Conference on the theme ‘We can work it out – reasonable adjustments in a modern world’, which focussed on making the world more inclusive for everyone. Our host,…
Lucy Ruck, Business Disability Forum’s Technology Taskforce lead, tells us how our new free Technology Toolkit can support you. Technology can be a vital tool in increasing productivity and making your products and services more accessible for everyone, but particularly disabled employees and customers. But tech introduced in isolation, without first considering the needs of…
Talk to any number of employees about their work arrangements, and you will very often hear “We have flexible working here.” Many are often only talking about having the option to change one thing or another about their jobs – being able to work from home, for example. But flexible working can mean many different…
There is a great urban legend about the moment the BBC resumed normal television programming in 1946, after the Second World War. Just before picking up precisely where the channel had left off in 1939, the announcer said: “As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted…” Is it just a legend? Sadly, yes….
In theory, the disability passport could be a major time-saver and problem-solver for many employees. Serving both to identify adjustments an employee might need and to record adjustments that have already been agreed, the disability passport should make it easier for employees with disabilities and long-term conditions to move into – and between – jobs….
By Dan Williams. Dan Williams is the Founding Director of BDF Member Visualise Training and Consultancy – the workplace accessibility and inclusion experts. In this blog, he looks at how challenges faced by employees with hearing loss or visual impairment can be overcome. Hearing loss, deafness, tinnitus and sight loss affect 14 million people in…
Our hybrid Annual Conference Back to the Future – how should employers respond to ‘the new normal’?, sponsored by NatWest, took place on Wednesday 28 June 2023 and was attended by over 500 people. If you weren’t able to join us, here we share some of the highlights and key takeaways from the conference. Many…
“I didn’t identify as disabled as such during university,” a graduate told us during The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023, recalling the support and flexibility she had as a research student. “It’s only now in the workplace that I feel disabled.” This was an experience common to many disabled students reaching the end of…
Our annual conference Back to the future: How should employers respond to “the new normal”? sponsored by NatWest is on Wednesday 28 June. In the run up to the event, Oliver Holbourn, CEO of RBS International talks to BDF CEO Diane Lightfoot about what NatWest is doing to recruit and retain disabled graduates, how businesses…
The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023 results are in. And let us start by saying: we’ve got a lot to tell you, just as the research had a lot to tell us. Thanks to you – the 1,500 employees and 400 managers who shared their views with us, and those of you among our…
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