How can employers best support disabled employees in hybrid working settings?
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is developing a toolkit and campaign to support employers, particularly small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), to make workplace adjustments for disabled people in hybrid working settings. By hybrid working they mean a combination of working at an office, at home, or in another location.
They are inviting SME employers and human resources practitioners to an online roundtable to share experiences of hybrid working and ensure that our project promotes the most effective messages on digitally inclusive work practices.
The shift by many employers to hybrid working has provided benefits to disabled workers. However, some workers are not being provided with the relevant digital support or reasonable adjustments at home or in the workplace, excluding them from hybrid working or affecting their ability to work effectively and stay in work.
They aim to:
- Develop a toolkit to improve SME employers’ understanding of their duty to make reasonable adjustments that result in digitally inclusive workplaces. We envisage that the toolkit will contain conversation guides and practical case studies on how to meet different workers’ needs in a range of hybrid working settings and help recruit and retain disabled staff.
- Develop a campaign to increase employer awareness of their duty to make reasonable adjustments in hybrid working settings.
