Disability consultancy
20% of the Australian population has a disability, including 2.2 million Australians of working age. - ABS, 2003
Is your organisation disability friendly? Do you know if your facilities are accessible?
Employees with disabilities have proven to be great for business. Read about the benefits of employing people with disabilities.
Diversity@work has over ten years of experience in the disability employment field and has worked with many of Australia's largest organisations to increase the attraction, recruitment and retention of people with a disability. Diversity@work delivers disability related services to employers and employment service providers Australia-wide. Diversity@work has produced numerous disability-related training programmes, action plans and policies for Government Departments at the state and federal level as well as large corporations like IBM.
"Diversity@work's disability awareness training has played an important role in our continuing commitment to making IBM genuinely friendly to people with a disability at every level of our business."
- Kylie Nicolson, Integration Manager for People with Disabilities, IBM Australia
"A strategy that gives a company a competitive advantage, while doing something positive for the community, must be worth considering. An increasing number of companies are now recognising the benefits they can gain from employing people with a disability."
- Reverend Tim Costello, CEO, World Vision
Diversity@work can help you to create a Disability Action Plan to identify the gap between where you are now, and where you want to be as an Employer and Provider of Choice for people with disabilities. We can also help you to address that gap by providing tailored solutions for your areas of need, such as: