The 2008 DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for People With Disabilities

By the Editors of DiversityInc.
Date Posted: May 27, 2008

This very important list is calculated differently from most of the other demographic lists because we do not have real demographic data on these companies--many people with disabilities do not self-identify. We ascertain this list by factoring in the questions we ask about people with disabilities, such as whether the company actively recruits them and has employee-resource groups for them. We also examine work/life benefits that help this population, such as telecommuting and flex time. We factor in whether the company has vendors owned by people with disabilities and/or veterans with disabilities. And we separately examine each company's web site for images of people with visible disabilities and content on reaching all people with disabilities as employees, suppliers and customers.

Consider these facts about this top 10 list:

• All of them have specific programs to recruit employees with disabilities, compared with 88 percent of the Top 50
• hey all offer the ability to work at home and/or telecommute, as do all of the Top 50
• They all offer job sharing, as do 80 percent of the Top 50
• Eighty percent of them offer alternative career tracks for those with long-term family-care issues, as do 56 percent of the Top 50
• All of them have employee-resource groups for people with disabilities, as do 71 percent of the Top 50

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