these accommodations include the use of assistive tech like timers, apps, etc, to track work duties or control fidgeting in meetings, working from home some or all of the time, providing a quiet environment/allowing headphone use for concentration, allowing for breaks as needed.
Extended deadlines can also be part of the accommodations, depending on your specific job. ADHD is covered under the ADA, and it's important to normalize having and using accommodation in the workplace because it is a normal thing to make you function at your job!
When the pandemic shutdown began, I was working from home and discovered that I could use fidget toys that make clicky sounds during meeting! (as long as I remembered to Mute). Joy! Joy!
it's so nice. I love working from home because of things like that. I can put music on as loud as I want (within reason for my neighbors), take breaks to play with my cats, and still get my work done, so it's all good.
under the ADA they're required to give them as long as they don't conflict with essential job duties, and for the vast majority of jobs, there will be no conflict.
The language is unfortunately painfully vague. They can deny any request that creates an “undue hardship.” Some will act as if merely spending any time *considering* an accommodation request is an undue hardship. 😑 Combined with at-will employment, I would proceed with caution.
I've definitely met hr who've treated considering my requests as undue hardship
i ended up giving up on advocating for what I needed because it was too much work to keep arguing
My whole team, who was hired in a neurodiversity program, got work from home accommodations for autism...
Then our whole team was let go to "to increase company efficiency"
This is right after management started fighting the accomodations.
They even got them revoked from one coworker, who has to go on medical leave due to how badly the office affected them.
I was also told that HR had orders to get rid of anyone working remote for any reason.
I have both plus a law degree and I couldn't get accommodations in the workplace at the human rights-y NFP I work for. Please, let reality temper your certainty.
It does depend where people live. In Northern Ireland a guy won his tribunal without an autism diagnosis. Tribunal judge said people don't need a diagnosis to be affected by any condition. Hopefully other places catch up.
