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It’s Time To Stop Ignoring Disability

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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How to Get a Job With Disabilities

Gill was on a mission to figure out why people with disabilities are often out of work. He identified three common causes of under employment, and they weren't a question of ability. First reason is attendance. Poverty has a capacity to rid you of bandwit. The third most prominent one, i think, and the most overlooked one, is postomatic social rejection. In two thousand eight, gill launched a call center calacol. It took a full year to secure his first client. Then he assembled a team of 15 people with various disabilities to start training. And it was not smooth sailing. We started to encounter all sorts of problems that you wouldn't really imagine unless you actually

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