The Small Business at Work Toolkit

Helping small businesses welcome employees with disabilities
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A man and a woman shake hands on the factory floor

Business Case

How disability inclusion benefits a business

A grab-and-go summary to take to meetings or use on the fly

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See how disability inclusiveness can help address the number one challenge for your small business: finding and keeping talent.

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Ignore a key source of reliable, skilled, loyal workers: people with disabilities.

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Believe research showing that workers with disabilities are as productive and perform as well on the job as those without disabilities.

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Believe misperceptions about workers with disabilities.

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Leverage all the talent available to run your small business.

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Ignore 20% of your available talent.

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Reduce turnover by hiring a reliable, loyal source of talent.

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Continue to accept the high cost of turnover to your small business.

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Realize the benefits of having people on staff who understand disability—who can help your business better serve customers with disabilities and create partnerships with disability agencies in the community who can help.

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Pay the price for being ineffective in serving the 20% of your customers who are using your product/service with a disability.

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Leverage the talents and skills that all veterans bring to your workplace.

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Dismiss the talents and skills that half of veterans (those with disabilities) bring to your workplace.

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Be more than your product or service. Be a business where people want to apply for a job. Be a business where employees are proud of their contribution to the community. Be a business that customers are proud to say they patronize. Show what you stand for.

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Ignore the purpose and spirit of your business. Make it just about the product.