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Designing Inclusive Remote and Hybrid Working to Support Disabled Workers

12 Mar 2025
Culture, Values and Engagement

The COVID-19 pandemic instigated widespread change to working practices: almost five years on, remote and hybrid working models are still available to many desk-based workers. One-fifth of the UK workforce is disabled yet their preferences for, and experiences of, remote and hybrid working are largely unexplored. Our large-scale mixed-methods study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, explores disabled people’s perspectives on the benefits and challenges associated with remote and hybrid working in relation to their employment, health/wellbeing, productivity and relationships, and factors they perceive as inclusive practice. Through employer interviews and organisational case studies, we also identify how employers are implementing remote/hybrid working models that are inclusive of disabled workers’ needs.

Chairperson
Dr Sarah Pass, Ambassador, Engage for Success and and Senior Lecturer in HRM, Nottingham Business School
Speakers
Dr Paula Holland, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Lancaster University
The COVID-19 pandemic instigated widespread change to working practices: almost five years on, remote and hybrid working models are still available to many desk-based workers. One-fifth of the UK workforce is disabled yet their preferences for, and experiences of, remote and hybrid working are largely unexplored. Our large-scale mixed-methods study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, explores disabled people’s perspectives on the benefits and challenges associated with remote and hybrid working in relation to their employment, health/wellbeing, productivity and relationships, and factors they perceive as inclusive practice. Through employer interviews and organisational case studies, we also identify how employers are implementing remote/hybrid working models that are inclusive of disabled workers’ needs.

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