Knowledge
Creating Inclusive Workplaces
Various methods exist for creating inclusive workplaces.
On this page, we introduce these methods to you. You will also find a checklist to assist you in hiring individuals with disabilities, along with tips on what to consider when designing inclusive workplaces.
- Inclusive Job Design: Creating Positions
- Job Carving: Adapting Positions
- Tips for Workplace Design
- Checklist “Preparation, Interview, and Onboarding”
Knowledge
Inclusive Job Design
Inclusive Job Design is a new approach to creating workplaces for individuals with disabilities. This method focuses on companies and their needs, generating sustainable benefits.
Skilled professionals are often overburdened or even understaffed. Especially during periods of illness, everyone reaches their limits, and an increasing amount of work remains undone.
At the same time, many more companies wish to commit to the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in the workforce but are unsure how to proceed.
The solution: inclusive job design.
Inclusive job design is geared toward employers.
The Profil Foundation uses this method Profil work processes and optimize existing job profiles based on the qualifications of existing employees.
Simpler and supportive tasks are identified and bundled into a new job profile. This creates new jobs for less qualified or less resilient employees, such as people with disabilities or health impairments.
These new employees take some of the pressure off skilled workers and give people with disabilities the opportunity to work in the primary labor market.
The Profil Foundation Profil the Inclusive Job Design method exclusively in Switzerland.
Your benefits include the following:
- You relieve your skilled professionals and create jobs for individuals with disabilities or health impairments.
- Thanks to Profil , you always Profil a professional contact person at your side.
- Skilled professionals can focus on their core tasks.
- Overtime is reduced.
- Absences due to illness are reduced.
- You demonstrate social and sustainable commitment, thereby generating value for your company.
Process of Inclusive Job Design:
Further information, news, and testimonials can be found in the right column.
Further Information
Flyer
> Inclusive Job Design (PDF)
> Flyer for Employers (PDF)
> Guide for Employers (PDF)
News
> 09/22: We win the Prix Printemps!
> 07/22: Guide for Employers
annual reports> Profil (PDF)
> 2021: Inclusive workplaces at the Schulthess Clinic (PDF)
> 2020: Inclusive workplace at the Canton of St. Gallen (PDF)
Job Carving
Job Carving is a proven method for employing individuals with disabilities.
Job Carving involves specifically adapting an existing job Profil to the resources and abilities of an applicant with a disability. This adaptation can be related to the job's content, performance capacity, or workload.
Workplace Design
What factors must be considered when designing a workplace for individuals with an impairment?
It is important to note that this is highly individual and primarily depends on how the disability affects daily life. The more flexible and open employers are, the greater the opportunity to integrate individuals with disabilities.
Here are some important tips:
- Barrier-free Access: Is the building accessible without barriers? Are there adapted restroom facilities? Is the break room designed to be accessible to everyone? Support can be obtained from Pro Infirmis building consulting services or through the IV offices.
- Review Infrastructure: Are special technical and/or digital aids required? The IV partially covers the costs for acquiring specific software and installations.
- Psychosocial Support: Are there quiet spaces available? Is there a system for managing breaks? Are working hours flexible? Is part-time work an option? Does the entire team support these arrangements?
- Performance-Based Adjustments: Can the job be adapted to accommodate a potential reduction in output? Is it possible to delegate responsibilities or plan tasks without time pressure? Is individual support or guidance for the person ensured?
More Information
Further information on this topic can also be found under:
> Contract and Social Law
> Performance and Wage Assessment
Checklist
This checklist for employers has been adapted from the book «ABC ARBEIT UND BEHINDERUNG» © IVB Disabled Self-Help both Basel:
> Preparation, Interview, and Onboarding (PDF)
What Profil can do Profil you
Do you need support on the path to becoming an inclusive company? Do you have a question about a specific case?
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- Workshops and Training
- Coaching and Consulting
- Job Creation
- Certification
- and other services
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