New Research Into The FTSE 100 Shows We’ve Made Progress In Disability Inclusion In Business – But There’s A Long Way To Go

Edit Story

Jun 30, 2021,09:00am EDT|

New Research Into The FTSE 100 Shows We’ve Made Progress In Disability Inclusion In Business – But There’s A Long Way To Go

Caroline Casey
Contributor
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
I am a social entrepreneur and cover disability inclusion in business.

  • Share to Facebook
  • Share to Twitter
  • Share to Linkedin

Last month, Tortoise Media released new research into disability reporting by the FTSE 100 – which represent some of the biggest and most influential businesses in the UK.

Cover of the Disability 100 Report by Tortoise and The Valuable 500

Tortoise Media Disability 100 Report

The research revealed that there are no executives or senior managers within the FTSE 100 that have disclosed a disability in company reporting, while only 12% report on the total number of their employees who are disclosed as disabled.

Published just ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the research demonstrates that while we have come a long way, and disability inclusion is now firmly on the business agenda, there is much more progress to be made.

As business is one of the most influential forces on the planet, where it leads society tends to follow. [...]

Read article at forbes.com (Provides limited free articles.)

Article Taxonomies

Categories:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/webable/www/www/wp-content/themes/webable/content-mcm.php:65 Stack trace: #0 /home/webable/www/www/wp-includes/template.php(792): require() #1 /home/webable/www/www/wp-includes/template.php(725): load_template('/home/webable/w...', false, Array) #2 /home/webable/www/www/wp-includes/general-template.php(206): locate_template(Array, true, false, Array) #3 /home/webable/www/www/wp-content/themes/webable/single-mcm_article.php(15): get_template_part('content-mcm') #4 /home/webable/www/www/wp-includes/template-loader.php(106): include('/home/webable/w...') #5 /home/webable/www/www/wp-blog-header.php(19): require_once('/home/webable/w...') #6 /home/webable/www/www/index.php(17): require('/home/webable/w...') #7 {main} thrown in /home/webable/www/www/wp-content/themes/webable/content-mcm.php on line 65