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Job supervisors with disabilities can boost productivity, new research shows

  • Written by Dustin Cole, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, Auburn University
imageIt can be easier to discuss your disability when your boss has one too.Westend61/Getty Images

Some large companies, such asWalgreens, Wells Fargo and Proctor & Gamble, are successfully integrating people with disabilities into their labor forces.

But other employers are not doing as good a job. That means they’re losing out on what the...

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