04/27/2022
Hiring People with Differing Abilities Is Not Altruism, It is Good Business.
The United States faces a labor crisis and part of the solution will come from hiring people with disabilities. While we could argue that hiring people with disabilities is the right thing to do, we posit a simple idea: hiring people with differing abilities is not altruism, it is good business. We make the business case how hiring people with differing abilities not only fills open jobs, but improves morale, productivity and retention and helps recruit other workers. Those businesses that hire people with differing abilities earn a competitive advantage. We urge employers, “Don’t be blinded by a person’s limitations, be awed by their possibilities.” John and Mark X. Cronin are the father-son team that founded John’s Crazy Socks, a social enterprise with a mission to spread happiness. John is an entrepreneur who just happens to have Down syndrome. More than half their employees have a differing ability and every day they work to show what people with differing abilities can achieve. They have bootstrapped their business into the world’s largest sock store, an internationally recognized, multi-million dollar enterprise.
Hiring People with Differing Abilities Is Not Altruism, It is Good Business.The United States faces a labor crisis and part of the solution will come from hi...
