Recent research*, a diversity, equity & inclusion company explores the experiences of neurodivergent employees in the UK, encompassing the recruitment process, masking, sharing with employers and reasonable adjustments in a new report Neurodiversity at Work (2024).
The research surveyed over 600 neurodivergent individuals currently employed in the UK and considers what organisations are currently doing well, and where they may be failing to support neurodivergent talent in the workplace.
Through a mixture of open and closed questions, individuals were asked to draw on their current or past real-life experiences with questions covering:
- Applying for roles
- Choosing to share their neurodiversity
- Asking for reasonable adjustments
- Feeling included at work, and whether they felt the need to mask
The report offers an insight into what neurodivergent employees feel organisations are getting right in the workplace, and where it is clear there is more work to be done.
Some of the key findings from the research were:
- 48% strongly disagreed, or disagreed, that recruitment processes were fair to neurodivergent candidates
- 69% had shared their neurodiversity to someone in their workplace, with the majority having a positive experience of doing so
- 63% had masked in the workplace
- Many of the adjustments that respondents mentioned would benefit all employees
*Research by Pearn Kandola
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