Valuable 500 Hits Namesake Goal, Shines Light on Disability at Some of the World’s Biggest Companies
By John Loeppky
Published May 25, 2021
As reported by the BBC, Disability Scoop, and other outlets this week, leaders at business giants like Mastercard, Prada, and Lenovo have made a commitment to both disabled employees and customers. The announcement comes from the Valuable 500, an initiative officially founded by Caroline Casey at the World Economic Forum in 2019. The initiative has previously partnered with the International Paralympic Committee and released a number of reports on disability issues, including one with UK-based outlet Tortoise Media that was released on May 19, 2021, one day after The Valuable 500 announced that they had reached their namesake goal, securing commitment from 500 CEOs worldwide. Those 500 companies translate to 20 million employees across 64 sectors and 36 countries, according to the organization’s data.
The Tortoise report found that, of those on the FTSE 100, 3.2% of their employees identify with disability. The researchers had comparatively little data to [...]