ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of ten companies: Specialisterne; SAP; EY; Microsoft; Willis Towers Watson; Hewlett Packard Enterprise; BBC – Project CAPE; Freddie Mac; JP Morgan Chase and Walgreens. In April 2017, 50 companies – including JP Morgan, Ford and EY – came together for a summit on how to bring more autistic adults into the workforce. In 2012, the German software maker SAP launched the pilot version of its Autism at Work Initiative in India and later expanded it to Ireland. The success of neurodiversity programmes has prompted some companies to think about how ordinary HR processes may be excluding high-quality talent. Despite the undoubted improvement in the overall picture – with the increasing willingness of enlightened employers not only to consider employing people on the autism spectrum but actively to recruit them – there have been claims that some tech companies are 'falling over themselves' to recruit white, middle-class autistic men with technical and coding experience.–.
