Companies are chalking out plans to train differently-abled people for managerial roles

Jubilant FoodWorks, the parent firm of Domino's Pizza in India, has come up with a programme because of which one can expect differently-abled employees in the company’s managerial roles in the coming years.

As a part of the programme, the company plans to have one differently-abled worker in tier-1 city outlets with 25 or more employees, said Biplob Banerjee, executive VP (HR and CSR), Jubilant FoodWorks.

Jubilant FoodWorks is now one of the several companies in the country that want to hire people with disabilities and train them for managerial roles.

IBM India, for example, has four-hour sessions for senior employees, making them aware about unconscious bias while also stressing on the need to include more differently-abled employees in the workforce.

"Differently-abled employees bring in a diversity of thought to the organisation, and hiring such persons is a business imperative for us, not a CSR activity," DP Singh, vice-president of HR (India/South Asia) at IBM, told ET.

EY India hires differently-abled talent through the Ability Foundation in Chennai, and the whole process is governed by a special mechanism.

Other companies that in the recent past have come up in favour of hiring differently abled staff include Infosys, Dell, IBM, HCL and Accenture.

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