Autism in workplace survey

[cami_monk]

Hi! I’m a high school student researching how workplace environments impact neurodivergent individuals, like those with autism. I’d love your insights! Your answers would help a lot. Microsoft Forms

 

[Alexej]

Hi @cami_monk - Ive filled in the form.
I translated school to workplace when answering.

We'd love to see your results

 

[Shevek]

In my schools, there was little chaos, but nothing could affect my daydreaming. I endured classes and learned from books.

 

[RedCoat1964]

Hi! I’m a high school student researching how workplace environments impact neurodivergent individuals, like those with autism. I’d love your insights! Your answers would help a lot. Microsoft Forms

Hi Cami!
I filled in your survey! Great questions, btw. I'm a sociologist, so I'm a survey geek.
Good luck with responses! Let us know how it goes.

 

[Judge]

I'll provide a little more detailed feedback that a questionnaire may lack:

I have a rather cynical understanding of many corporations interest in altering work environments to accommodate much of anyone, ND or NT. Particularly as a former workers compensation underwriter, when part of my job was to observe and advise businesses of all kinds over health and safety concerns of their employees. We did make some great improvements in some areas, particularly with a large hospital which seemed indifferent to how it treated their professional nursing staff. (Not neurological considerations.)

Yet when it came to similar considerations inside our own office, we were often met with management rolling their eyes and reminding us what is and is not within their budget. Disgraceful and professionally hypocritical as can be. Though eventually change came, even regarding mundane office exposures relative to adapting to proper ergonomics to prevent repetitive movement injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome. Where a poorly paid typist or clerical worker could cost an employer and their workers compensation carrier plenty.

Reminds me too of only a few years ago when my cousin was working in healthcare insurance, and the ghastly open and insufficient size of her work station. When she sat so close to coworkers to the detriment of her own health.

That businesses are more likely coerced through law or leveraged in order to push for better working conditions. Don't expect them all to simply "do the right thing".

When I think of the things I had to endure in a traditional office environment...oh my. With only managers in their own corner offices. And the rest of us exposed to each other and all the noise and distractions that went with it. Yet somehow I survived. Luckily smoking became prohibited inside offices due to the nation's first such ordinance in 1981. Which may have saved my life given how allergic I am to cigarette smoke.

Though I did learn to see the difference with how chaotic working in an insurance office was compared to an entertainment software developer, working as a web designer. Where in most cases everyone had a sizable cubicle, and allowed to work with the main lights of large spaces turned off given everyone was using computers for long periods of time.

I guess my main point in all of this is to emphasize the indifference of employers in whatever work environment they provide. That real improvements come through outside pressure, and not empathy. Whether employees are autistic or not.