Emerging Trends: Walgreens Utilize Workers With Disabilities

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Workers With Disabilities “Successful companies will make it a priority to create a workplace culture that embraces and encourages diversity. It has been successfully done for race, sex and sexual orientation. Now age and disability must be added” (Wells, n.d., p. 3). The case Emerging Trends: Walgreens Leads the Way in Utilizing Workers with Disabilities discusses Walgreens unique choice to place a focus on equal opportunity employment specifically as it pertains to disabled workers. The company has opened to distribution centers and the goal of management is to have 33% of the available jobs be occupied by people with disabilities. Walgreens has discovered in the original distribution center in South Carolina that implementation of a disability friendly environment has improved everyone’s ability to do there job which in turn makes them more …show more content…
5). The awareness does not just resonate as an area of opportunity because companies feel guilty for not hiring workers with disabilities, but rather because there are both tangible and intangible benefits to making a lasting commitment to implementing a strategy that includes disabled workers. The tangible benefits for Walgreens caused by this leadership would include, but are not limited to, a decrease in employee turnover, lower costs in medical benefits, larger employee reach, and tax relief benefits. Along with the tangible benefits Walgreens also benefits from the intangibles, as Wells, (n.d.), discusses how this has given Walgreens the ability to create an inclusive workforce reflecting community, increase employee motivation due to the companies willingness to maximize each individuals potential, increase employee awareness, improve the company’s reputation, and achievement (p.
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