 "Most firms don't have a policy on employment of people with disabilities. Those who have well-structured HR practices showed improvements in business results too, says an official")
Hiring of differently- or specially-abled professionals by Indian recruiters has still a long way to go, if the recent survey findings by recruitment and flex-staffing firm Genius Consultants are anything to go by.
The survey finds that the bulk of recruiters, or about 85 per cent of the respondents, have either not hired or are companies in which such a concept is still in pipeline. Effectively, only roughly 15 per cent of the respondents actually have specially-abled employees on their rolls.
This is despite that fact that close to 40 per cent of India Inc believes in hiring differently-abled for
