A key treatment that ministers have placed at the heart of their strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ill-health into paid work has only a tiny impact on the probability of them sec…
Even if someone can work there are virtually no employers who will touch someone who has been out of work for years. Unless employers are required to hire disabled people, disabled people won’t be hired.
Not to mention accommodations. Myself, for example, can only sit up for around 4~6 hours per day and the longer I sit up, the more likely I am to get muscle spasms later. It helps if I spread this out, so like 3 hours sitting up, a few hours of laying down, then getting back up, rinse and repeat.
Nobody is going to hire me to work 2 hour shifts or will install a bed for me to work from while I rest. Nobody is going to hire someone that can’t stand up for more than 45 minutes. And ain’t nobody going to hire someone whose performance grinds to a halt randomly due to pain spikes caused by working and has to call in sick because it.
Yes, accommodations are a whole nother thing and employers won’t give them unless they are forced! If I want to be able to type all day for software engineering I need a keyboard that costs $1050. That’s something that only needs to be paid if it’s an in office job and makes me significantly less competitive compared to people who don’t need that.
Even if someone can work there are virtually no employers who will touch someone who has been out of work for years. Unless employers are required to hire disabled people, disabled people won’t be hired.
Not to mention accommodations. Myself, for example, can only sit up for around 4~6 hours per day and the longer I sit up, the more likely I am to get muscle spasms later. It helps if I spread this out, so like 3 hours sitting up, a few hours of laying down, then getting back up, rinse and repeat.
Nobody is going to hire me to work 2 hour shifts or will install a bed for me to work from while I rest. Nobody is going to hire someone that can’t stand up for more than 45 minutes. And ain’t nobody going to hire someone whose performance grinds to a halt randomly due to pain spikes caused by working and has to call in sick because it.
Yes, accommodations are a whole nother thing and employers won’t give them unless they are forced! If I want to be able to type all day for software engineering I need a keyboard that costs $1050. That’s something that only needs to be paid if it’s an in office job and makes me significantly less competitive compared to people who don’t need that.