Benefits for Employers

Hello, Local Business! We, at Abundant Life Employment Services, are excited to partner with you! Our services are free to the employer and our client. We hope to help you with finding and retaining great employees, while making your bottom-line financially better! Your company can be a leader in large-scale change and improve public relations and image, just by embracing an opportunity to hire.

Profits and Cost-Effective

Employers can actually benefit financially from hiring people with disabilities.  Here are a few ways how:

  • Low turnover and higher retention rates
  • Worker’s Compensation Claims are less frequent due to receiving one-on-one training and support
  • A company can reevaluate and reassign tasks to yield more profits by adding a new position for our client
  • The WOTC tax credit
  • More support and loyalty from the community that values your investment in our people
  • Many don’t want/need company benefits like health insurance

Higher Retention Rates/Lower Employee Turnover

When a person is placed in a position based on their strengths and supported with one-on-one training, they tend to stay in their positions longer. We take time to find the right position for our client. They know the work that goes into getting a new job and, once they are placed, our clients know the value of a well-fit position and a supportive staff. Loyalty is a typical characteristic seen amongst our clients.

Lower Absenteeism

Our quality and dependable clients have worked hard to get the position. If they have been placed well, then they love being at work, being around their coworkers, and miss being at work. Getting out of the house and into the community is typically very important to our clients.

Diversity and Inclusion

People with disabilities are highly underrepresented in the movement of diversity and inclusion. People with disabilities represent all shapes, sizes, ethnicities, religions, socio-economic statuses, genders, and orientations. They are included in all disenfranchised groups of people. Unfortunately, a visible disability can limit these individuals even further based on societal misconceptions. It is a common belief that companies that are diverse are more successful.

Knowing Who You Are Hiring

When working with an Employment Specialist, we know our clients. We know their strengths, weaknesses, work history, and most of the time we can predict what to expect from our individual, if employed. We can help plan for any potential bumps in the road.

Increase in Morale and Satisfaction

By working with an Employment Specialist onsite, many companies learn how to improve staff/co-worker communication which leads to a positive team attitude and results in an increase of employee morale. When people understand how to communicate, identify the needs of others and understand how to address them, companies grow and flourish.

Work Opportunity Tax Credit

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a federal tax credit available to employers who invest in American job seekers who face barriers to employment. Generally, the credit is 40% of qualified first-year wages for individuals who work 400+ hours in their first year of employment.

More Accuracy/Higher Production Levels

When an individual has been taught to do something well, they often produce more and are more accurate. According to the research done by Marc Gold, he found that if someone was taught using the “Try Another Way Method,” that although they would produce a slightly less amount of product due to their disability, there were more completed products done correctly than their peers. This means that the person with the disability’s work was more profitable than their peers.

Assistance in Training

When hired, we can offer assistance in training. Once we have been taught what the employer wants from our client, we can reinforce it, and you can go about doing your work.

Helping the Collective Community Mindset

When a community sees that people with disabilities can achieve higher accomplishments in the workforce, a domino effect is created that brings more love, support, and value to this population. Help us unbox the societal expectations of our clients so that everyone knows that there are no limits to what they can accomplish.