The Way of Perseverance

This list is a follow-up to the blog post about preparing your adult disabled child for future employment.

What follows is a list of 55 companies that actively hire persons with disabilities.

Large Companies:

1. AT&T

2. Pepsico

3. Walgreens

4. Microsoft

5. Amazon

6. Autocon

7. Home Depot

8. Lowe’s

9. Best Buy

10. AMC Theaters

11. Cencora

12. firsthand

13. GSK

14. CVS

15. Liberty Mutual Insurance

16. SoFi

17. Wise

18. CSC

19. Grainger

20. Zoro

21. VelocityVHS

22. PNC Financial Services Group

23. Block

24. Pfizer

25. UnitedHealth Group

26. Spectrum

27. Northwestern Mutual

28. Goodwill Industries

29. Publix

30. Walmart

31. Target

32. Advanced Auto Parts

33. McDonald’s

34. Sodexo

36. Inclusively

37. Accenture

38. Google

39. IBM

40. Cisco

Specialized and local business:

42. 321 Coffee  Raleigh, North Carolina

43. Bitty and Beau’s Coffee  Wilmington, North Carolina

44. PRIDE Industries  Roseville, California

45. Comcast

46. Dig It! Coffee Los Vegas, New Mexico

47. Sunflower Bakery Rockville, Maryland

48. John’s Crazy Socks Huntington, NY

49. Hugs Cafe McKinney, Texas

50. Rollin’ Oats St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida

51. Brewabilty Englewood, Colorado

52. Ability Weavers Lowell, Michigan

53. The Chocolate Spectrum Jupiter, Florida

54. Cameron’s Coffee and Chocolates Fairfax, Virginia

55. Howdy Homemade Dallas, Texas, Katy, Texas, Bossier City Louisiana, Shreveport Louisiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, Kansas City Missouri, Denver Colorado

3 Reasons Companies Hire People with Disabilites

Hiring People with Disabilies is smart business

The reasons are many and too much detail to include here but in brief it is three-fold:

• Busniess, large and small, find in difficult to acquire talented employees. Forbes reports that the population of the disabled offers a “largely untapped talent pool”.
• A study conducted in 2023 by Accenture and Disability:IN revealed that “companies that actively employ and support people with disabilities outperform their peers. These companies experienced 1.6 times more revenue, 2 times more economic profit, and 2.6 times more net income compared to those with less inclusive practices. Also, compared to their industry peers, these companies are 25% more productive—measured by revenue per employee.
• Transcen.org highlights research reflects that fact that “employing people with disabilities taps into a growing market of customers with disabilities, $220 billion in discretionary spending each year. Further, 92% of consumers reflect favorably on businesses known to hire people with disabilities, with 87% preferring to do business with these companies.”

Accommodations Companies Can Provide

The ADA requires businesses of 15+ employees to make reasonable accommodations or adjustments to:

• the job application process
• the work environment
• employee benefits and privileges

Some types of disabilities accommodated include:

• blindness
• deafness
• ADHD
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• brain injury
• cerebral palsy
• intellectual disability
• learning disability
• mental health conditions
• neurodiversity
• Tourette Syndrome

A complete list can be found at the JAN-Job Accommodation Network website along with a Workplace Accommodation Toolkit

The ADA National Network offers detailed information about:

• reasonable accommodations
• essential functions
• definition of an “individual with a disability”
• examples of reasonable accommodations

God often opens doors we never imagined possible.

As you pray for your child’s future, ask Him to reveal their unique gifts and the places where those gifts can bless others—whether through employment, vocation, or both.

I would love to hear about the places your special needs child dreams of working.