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Study finds people hide their disabilities at work
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
disability compliance for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-8001
pISSN - 1086-1335
DOI - 10.1002/dhe.30690
Subject(s) - workforce , work (physics) , center (category theory) , public relations , business , psychology , sociology , political science , medical education , gerontology , economic growth , engineering , economics , medicine , mechanical engineering , chemistry , crystallography
Nearly a third (30%) of the workforce matches the current federal definition of having a disability, but only 39% of those with a disability disclose that fact to an employer. Those findings come from a recent study conducted by the Center for Talent Innovation and published in the Harvard Business Review .