Growing EY Initiative Promotes Workplace Neurodiversity (1)

Since 2016 Ernst & Young has recruited neurodivergent employees through its Neuro-Diverse Centers of Excellence, tapping into a segment of the population that suffers from high unemployment.

Employees at the 14 NCoEs perform duties that are heavily technology-oriented, such as cloud optimization, intelligent automation, and streamlining work processes. The hiring process skips interviews, instead testing candidates with tasks such as coding; some neurodivergent people don’t have typical social and communicative abilities, which would hamper their job interview performance.

“You have a lot of very capable people who communicate differently, who may approach work differently, and therefore they’re not getting the ...