Recruiters cold to differently-abled, only 15% hire from this set: study

61.74% of the respondents agreed the biggest challenge in hiring the specially-abled was the attitude of co-workers; 21.2% said engaging them led to losses in productive work hours

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