Reasonable Accommodations
Eliminating barriers to employment
As an employer, your company plays a key role in eliminating barriers to work for people with disabilities.
Instituting reasonable accommodations is an essential part of creating a work environment suited to the needs of your employees with disabilities.
The Americans with Disabilities Act defines reasonable accommodation as “any change in the work environment or the way things are usually done that gives an individual with a disability an equal employment opportunity.”
Workers with disabilities strive to be as productive as their peers and want to accomplish tasks with greater ease and independence. By making the appropriate modifications or adjustments, such as reasonable accommodations, employers can help facilitate their workers’ abilities to perform essential job functions.
Reasonable accommodations may also be applied to the hiring process, such as the accessibility of an online job application or interview location.
