2023 Best Places to Work: Announcing the DEI Top Scoring Companies
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2023 Best Places to Work: Announcing the DEI Top Scoring Companies

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Published Jul 11, 2023
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Disability:IN proudly announces the 2023 Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion.

The Disability Equality Index (DEI), a joint initiative with the American Association of People with Disabilities, is a comprehensive benchmarking tool that helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions toward disability inclusion and equality. Each company receives a score, on a scale of zero (0) to 100, with those earning 80 and above recognized as “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion”.

In 2023, 485 companies participated in the DEI, illuminating intriguing insights from this year's benchmark, including:

  1. Diversity of DEI Participation: There is an increased range and variation among organizations participating in the DEI with 30 industry sectors represented; more than 70% of Fortune 100 companies and nearly half of the Fortune 500 are now leveraging the benchmark.
  2. Board-Level Representation: In 2023, board-level representation of people with disabilities remains a limited practice that has only been adopted by 7% of participating companies.
  3. Building Inclusive Cultures Worldwide: The two-year Global Disability Equality Index (Global DEI) pilot, spanning 98 companies across 66 countries, identified three key components for a disability-inclusive culture: in-country executives who identify as a person with a disability or a strong ally, C-suite support, and a disability-focused Employee Resource Group that has been active for two years or more.

Congratulations to the Top-Scoring Companies*!

*Note: Receiving a 100 score on the DEI does not indicate perfection; disability inclusion is a journey and employers that earn a 100 score satisfy the current criteria. These criteria evolve as employers adopt existing criteria and new best practices emerge. Disability inclusion is a journey and there is always room for improvement.

The top-scoring companies are listed alphabetically by the company name as provided to AAPD and Disability:IN. 

Dark blue gradient background with light blue stripes swooping behind a white rectangle light and dark blue text, 100 Top-Scoring Companies
Companies that received a 100 score on the DEI.
Dark blue gradient background with light blue stripes swooping behind a white rectangle light and dark blue text, 90 Top-Scoring Companies
Companies that received a 90 score on the DEI.
Dark blue gradient background with light blue stripes swooping behind a white rectangle light and dark blue text, 80 Top-Scoring Companies
Companies that received an 80 score on the DEI.

 

More About the DEI

The Disability Equality Index (DEI) is a comprehensive benchmarking tool that helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions that they can take to achieve disability inclusion and equality. Each company receives a score, on a scale of zero (0) to 100, with those earning 80 and above recognized as “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion”.

The DEI is a joint initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the nation’s largest disability rights organization, and Disability:IN, the global business disability inclusion network, to collectively advance the inclusion of people with disabilities. The organizations are complementary and bring unique strengths that make the project relevant and credible to corporations and the disability community. The DEI Advisory Committee, a diverse group of business leaders, policy experts, and disability advocates, contributed to the development of the Disability Equality Index.

Learn more at: www.DisabilityEqualityIndex.org.

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Anthony Orso, MSDS

Data Science @ Edelman 🤓 | Sherlock Holmes of Data 🔎 | Calculus Geek 📈 | Neurodivergent Techie 🧠

1y

This list has perfect scores for several companies that are well known in the disability community for violations of disabled folks. Very surprising.

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Shannon Rees

Sales Account Manager | Specialty Chemical Packaging, ISO-SPT, Safety and Facilities

1y

This absolutely makes a difference! I'm excited to look into a few these.

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Dan Middleton

Disability advocate leading efforts to develop innovative ways to increase employment outcomes | Dedicated to helping people find meaningful lifelong employment

1y

I appreciate all the hard work that these companies and DEI put into the process of being selected for this elite group of companies. HOWEVER, It's not good enough. Over 5 million people with disabilities remain unemployed. I would like to see the numbers year over year of how many people with disabilities are getting jobs and keeping them as if they had a career. Instead of counting the companies, I'd like to know if DEI has any numbers on real people in careers. Counting companies is needed, but it doesn't give me a feeling that progress is being made. I would be glad to talk about how we represent numbers. Message me, and we can brainstorm some other ideas.

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Kara Brumfield

Registered Nurse at Surgical Specialty Center of Baton Rouge

1y

Looking or somewhere in the Baton Rouge area. Any suggestions?

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Jacqui Parker

Global Total Reward Leader | Expert in Global Benefits and Compensation | Passionate about Employee Engagement | Strategic Alignment and Cost Management | Experience in EMEA | APAC | Americas

1y

I wasn’t surprised to see Thermo Fisher on the list. A lot of healthcare companies on this list.

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