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Enhance your Community Image
Get noticed: Businesses realize that their public image matters. Customers appreciate a business who gives back to the community. Hiring a person with a disability not only gains you a good employee, it also tells your customer you value people. Your customers notice.
Capture Business from the Largest Minority Group: Hiring people with disabilities is not about a humanitarian effort. It is simply a smart business choice. Considering that Americans with disabilities represent 20% of the population, they are the single largest minority group in the country. The number of customers with disabilities is growing, in part due to accidents, strokes, war-related injuries and the aging of baby boomers. Consumers with disabilities represent $1 trillion in annual aggregate consumer spending.
Turn a Social Security Recipient into a Tax Payer: Millions of working-aged adults with disabilities are without a job. This large workforce is capable, dependable and available. They are waiting for someone to give them a chance. As an equal opportunity employer, you have the possibility of changing an individual’s life. Help a Social Security recipient become a tax payer and gain a valuable employee at the same time. Hire a person with a disability.
Increase Production: Vadis assists businesses to run more effectively by increasing production. Vadis achieves this by proposing slight adaptations to the current structure of tasks to be a better fit for a new employee with disabilities. Routinely, businesses say these universal designs have enhanced overall efficiency by identifying more effective ways of reaching the end result. Furthermore, skilled employees are able to focus their expertise on other important tasks, thereby increasing efficiency.
Enhance Customer Service: Innovative businesses that hire employees with disabilities discover their workforce is introduced to new ways of communicating and working together. Employees develop acceptance and appreciation for the individuality of others. This enables employees to relate better to a wide variety of customers.
Profit from a Diverse Workforce
Increase Teamwork and Customer Service: When we recognize and value the contributions of diverse coworkers, we become better able to talk about and deal with differences. Valuing diversity and dealing with differences results in less tension and stress in the work environment. We become more comfortable and responsive to customers who are different from us.
Enhance Creativity: Diversity is good for results and effective problem solving. As businesses make minor modifications to adjust to diversity, all the workers learn that there is more than one way to tackle an issue. Employees begin to think more creatively.
Enrich Your Workforce: As people share their different experiences, employees feel they are in a more interesting environment. By participating in the growth and success of their peers, employees have a greater sense of contribution, leadership and satisfaction. With increased satisfaction, absenteeism, turnover and work injuries are reduced.
For Pierce County click on Karen or call 253.863.5173 ext. 228
For King County click on Bonnie or call 425.264.0888 ext. 203