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Susanne Bruyère, academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, discusses how prominent companies are adapting hiring practices to support neurodivergent employees.

“Employers are recognizing they may be unnecessarily eliminating applicants,” said Susanne Bruyère, academic director at the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, sharing how health issues can create gaps in a job candidate’s employment history that may cause an AI to screen out a qualified job candidate.

“I think all of us find identity in our job, in our work. … We want to make sure that what we’re doing and how we’re spending our time matters,” said Wendy Strobel Gower, executive director of ILR’s Yang-Tan Institute, in a keynote speech covered in this article.