The Accommodate in Place Initiative
Mental health and wellness have emerged as critical issues of our time and have only been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Wisconsin State Council SHRM has launched “The Accommodate in Place Initiative,” designed to facilitate conversations between employees experiencing hardships at work and HR professionals. The goal of the initiative is to provide HR professionals with a set of tools to help them design the best solution to meet the needs of their employees.
Four Components of the Initiative are:
- Develop, Implement, and Interpret a business climate survey, focused on current levels of disability inclusion and accommodation in the workforce.
- Gather Resources, Publish, and Support a Community that provides best practices for designing legal accommodations.
- Develop and Teach how to facilitate an empathetic and emotionally intelligent, supportive conversation, where people will feel safe exploring and understanding the nature of their hardship.
- Create & Share the Cost Justification which supports the Cultural Investment companies need to make accommodations for their workforce.
Four Areas Of Accommodation:
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