E51:Disability Employment: Innovations and Initiatives

Workforce Waves

This episode features a conversation with Matt Glowacki, Diversity, Inclusion, and Workflex Director for Wisconsin SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management). Matt discusses his experience of being a person with a disability and provides some history about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). He also reveals the wide variety of disabilities covered under the ADA, and how not all disabilities are readily visible. Discover how the COVID pandemic has led to more conversations about disability inclusion in the workplace and hear about innovative accommodations and investments for workers with disabilities.