What Is Neurodiversity?

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Stress and burnout are at an all-time high in companies.

Neurodivergent individuals face more challenges in the workplace.

A new report finds that neuroinclusion benefits everyone and improves companywide well-being.

The professional landscape is filled with challenges. Employers cite absenteeism and turnover as issues, while employees face all-time-high rates of burnout. This phenomenon arises all around the world. Recent news suggests that 70 percent of U.S. Gen Z workers may be diagnosed with burnout, while a study in Norway shows that, whereas only 5.8 percent of healthcare workers were burning out in 2012, that increased to 24 percent of the workforce in 2024. Globally, stress rates have never been higher, and the common challenge that both employees and employers are faced with now is to understand how to reverse the trend.

New Report on Neuroinclusion in the Workplace

The answer may come from an unexpected source, according to the new report I wrote and published with NeuroBridge, a neurodiversity support company. Studies on neurodivergence in the workplace have often focused on the specific challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals—those who may be diagnosed with neurodevelopmental or mental health conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, etc. The converging findings were that neurodivergent individuals faced more challenges than other employees and tended to struggle more professionally. The answer to these challenges was to provide accommodations or to train managers. In the United Kingdom specifically, the Equality Act made these measures compulsory, even without the need to disclose.

Emerging evidence shows that accommodations improve the well-being of neurodivergent individuals, decrease the likelihood of turnover and absenteeism, and improve........

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