cover image: How to use the surge in teleworking as a real chance to include people with disabilities

How to use the surge in teleworking as a real chance to include people with disabilities

17 Aug 2020

COVID-19 unleashed the pent-up potential for telework. Over a third of respondents to Eurofound’s online survey of Europeans in April had started teleworking because of the pandemic. Never before had so many people been working from home. For people with disabilities, telework has long been viewed as the ideal solution to removing many of the barriers to their participation in the open labour market. But it has not lived up to its promise and people with disabilities remain strongly disadvantaged when it comes to employment. Does the current embrace of telework by employers offer a second chance?
covid-19 teleworking employment and labour markets inclusive labour markets disability and chronic disease

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Ahrendt, Daphne, Patrini, Valentina

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