There's less of a commute.
I feel more relaxed. Uhm?
I am I'm available now.
Whether this is a good or bad thing.
I'm available more hours of the day
and Luckily my boss has been very
supportive and saying why are you
sending work emails at 7:00 PM?
Go to bed. I do like going to
an office I I don't mind it.
I like the camaraderie you can often
get from an office. That said,
I get my team is really remote anyway,
so I don't think I'm missing
much being from home right now,
and I hope that other companies
are able to to.
Learn from this.
I think this is a huge opportunity for
growth and I think that people with
disabilities are absolutely going to be
one of the beneficiaries of that change.
You know.
Ideally, it wouldn't matter if an
employee has disability or not it.
As long as a disability a disability
doesn't mean someone is unable to do a job,
it means they may need a different
computer or an additional piece
of equipment or a different desk.
For example,
at an office, maybe.
You need to get them a desk
with adjustable height.
That's not something you have to worry
about when you're working from home.
Somebody who would be working from
home would already have their set
up and what works best for them
to be able to do the job and.
You know, ideally it wouldn't matter it.
It shouldn't matter as long as
the person can do the job. Being
on the spectrum.
One thing I sometimes struggle with his
social stuff and social communication,
and some of those unwritten office rules
and by working remotely is nice because
some of the like in person dynamic.
So things like eye contact and things
like you know direct interaction
with people in a physical sense.
I don't have to really worry
about because there's no need
for eye contact when you're.
You know, chatting over a computer.
I would like to think that more
companies will hire people with
disabilities because I know that
as people with disabilities I know
that remote work is something that
some people with disabilities have
sort of been wanting for a while,
and that certain individuals,
depending on their disability it'll
help them if they do remote work.
'cause I'll have some of those extra
accommodations and supports that
may have been a little bit more
challenging to get in the workplace.
So I would like to hope that that
does increase the diverse population.
In the workplace and people with
disabilities get more of an opportunity
because now companies will see that.
OK, well,
we don't have to physically have someone
in the office to do a good job in to do work.
Ultimately,
you know it shouldn't be so
much about how they have to be
in this specific environment.
What matters ultimately is
and the person do the job.
I always had said that I never
wanted to work from home.
I never wanted to be.
That disabled person that
works from home just because.
There's China, I guess a stereotype or
stigma against people with disabilities
like it's assumed that I work from home.
I got that question all the
time and I love telling them no.
Actually I go into work.
I work in an office.
You know, so it's kind of a pride thing
that I didn't want to work from home, but.
In the long run, it makes no sense,
so I think that a lot of companies right
now are really realizing how much.
Remote work.
Can be done and can still be
done efficiently, I know.
Last time they were super set against
about ever working from home even though
we were all working on computers anyway,
so I feel like.
That now that more and more
people are working from home.
I hope that they do consider more
people disabilities that they
can't come into an office because.
I think hopefully that reduces the stigma.