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Tech Giant SAP Seeks To Hire More Autistic Adults (cio.com)
itwbennett writes: In May 2013, SAP launched its Autism at Work program, with the goal of recruiting and hiring 'hundreds of people' with autism worldwide. Now the company is expanding the program, and is looking to have people on the autism spectrum make up 1 percent of its total workforce (~650 people) by 2020, says José Velasco, head of the Autism at Work program at SAP. So far, autistic workers fulfill all kinds of roles in IT — from software testing, data analysis, quality assurance to IT project management, graphic design, finance administration and human resources, Velasco says, and the potential for new roles is expanding rapidly.
They have identified a problem (autistic people find it hard to get good jobs) that they want to try to address. They are saying they want 1% of their workforce to be on the spectrum. That means 99% are not. So before you feel outrage at the terrible discrimination against the poor straight while males, consider that 99% of the positions are available to them.
In fact 1% is about the proportion of people with autism of some kind anyway, so all they are really saying is that they want to stop (unintentionally) discriminating. By removing the barriers the ratio will reach 1% naturally, unless you believe that autistic people are simply inferior.
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