Veterans with Disabilities
Non Quantifiable Business Benefits
- Recognizing that people with disabilities are good for business, Cisco CEO John Chambers advocates that employees with disabilities add diversity to a workforce, a factor in improved productivity and creativity (Employer Assistance & Recruiting Network.)
- "It´s about inclusion... it has to do with talent and not ignoring people who could help us achieve our business goals" Jim Sinocchi, Director HR Communications, IBM "[we are] in bidding wars for people with disabilities."
- Branka Minic, Director of Workforce Development for Manpower states, "Manpower is interested in people with disabilities because that´s our strategic position... we continuously analyze labor trends, skills analysis, supply and demand... we are going to face a tremendous shortage of labor."
- A Virginia Commonwealth University survey of 250 supervisors in 43 businesses indicates that supervisors are satisfied with the performance of their employees with disabilities, rating their performance similar to that of their non-disabled peers.
