Overview
In today's global workplace, enterprises leverage diversity to create a smart, productive, efficient workforce. Employees with disabilities can make unique and significant contributions if businesses enable competitive productivity with comprehensive and effective accommodations.
The Accessible Workplace Connection application is a single global accommodation process that helps ensure employees who have disabilities equal opportunity to advance and contribute. This one-stop resource for employees with disabilities and their managers enables accommodations to be delivered, changed, supported and maintained effectively and efficiently.
Benefits
- Provides a simple way to acquire and support accommodations
- Eliminates process confusion
- Supports global consistency
- Improves hiring and retention rate (reduced attrition) and advancement of employees
- Improves employee/administrator productivity
In addition, the Accessible Workplace Connection can help improve process efficiency, the quality of accommodations, and the ability to securely gather data and reports while maintaining privacy.
How it works
The Accessible Workplace Connection application, based on IBM WebSphere® technology, consists of a web-based administrative program, a database component and an employee portlet.
The Accessible Workplace Connection administrative program includes:
- My Profile – Settings summary and views of existing accommodations and all requests for each user.
- Catalog – Catalog of all available accommodations.
- Requests – Creation, modification, review or approval of requests for accommodation, and views of historical documentation.
- Application Help – Documentation for every facet of the application.
- Alerts & Notifications – Summary and convenience links to requests requiring action.
- Report & Adminstrative Functions – Management of the catalog components and accommodation usage reports and statistics.
- Email Generation – Generation of emails during specific stages in the accommodation process. Includes security to ensure anonymity.
The Accessible Workplace Connection database components deliver key data and request management capabilities:
- Case Management – Stores a record of all cases and requests.
- Accommodations & Support – Stores all core accommodations and support (accessories or ancillary services) available in the enterprise.
- Organization – Stores the identifying information for all human resources personnel involved in fulfilling or managing the accommodations process.
The Accessible Workplace Connection Employee Portlet provides alerts and notification summaries, along with convenient hyperlinks to create new requests or to active requests requiring attention.