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Based on responds from 2000 workplaces, the employer’s willingness to hire a qualified applicant falls from around 70% to about 22%, if the applicant is using a wheelchair which requires minor adjustments at the workplace.

Even when they are told that the job centre has recommended the applicant or that it is possible to get financial support to adjust the workplace, the increase in companies willingness to hire applicant with disabilities is not a whole lot different. This is regardless of the place being a public or private organisation.

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If companies are to remain attractive to new talents, especially , it requires courage and ability to change and focus on .

Based on the learnings from the Penny report, Linnéa Schmidt from Moneypenny and More and GoGetty's co-founder Helene Aagaard, are talking gender diversity in an opinion piece in today's Jyllands-Posten (in Danish).

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VR is now being described as an “empathy machine”, because VR technology has proven to actually being able to affect our empathy.

Stanford University has conducted a study about VR and empathy in which 560 people participated. The participants were presented to stories and lives of homelessness in different forms.

Those participants using VR rather than just written text or on a screen, were more prone to answer that the homeless’ lives mattered to them personally and also agreed to a larger extent that society does not do enough to help the homeless.