In New Zealand, nearly 1 in 4 people are identified as disabled, but only 25% of them are employed. Further to this, disabled people are more than twice as likely to be underemployed. This presents an opportunity for employers smart enought to increase their disability inclusion. Accessing a previously undertapped section of the labour market.

The underlying problem is that employers tend to discriminate against disabled people due to misinformation and unchallenged biases. Even organisations with a high maturity in gender, bi-culturalism, and rainbow inclusion find they have barriers preventing them from realising disabled people's true potenial.

When you become a member of the New Zealand Disability Employers' Network (NZDEN) you are pooling your resources with other organisations to gain access to specialist knowledge, skills and connections to support your organisation's disability and neurodiversity inclusion to thrive.

Furthermore, the network aspires to establish New Zealand best practices that become the de facto standard for organisations to contribute to true equity in employment for disabled people.