I've been disabled since 17, finally got approved for SSDI in 2017 after almost two decades of struggling to work and make ends meet. I can say definitively that employment in the US does not follow the guidelines as they exist and those guidelines are too weighted in the favor of the employer in the first place.
A simple example of this is that often part-time hours would allow me to continue working and there is nothing in the ADA/EEO or FMLA that guarantees a worker's right to keep their job at part-time indefinitely. The obligation to perform to the level of a typical worker is squarely on the shoulders of the disabled. Good luck finding an employer generous enough to deal with all of your needs.
85% of the people with my diagnosis are unemployed despite the fact most of us want to work. The algorithms will probably help make sure it's more like 90-95% of us. But at least the stakeholder involvement process makes people feel like they have a voice even as they are categorically excluded from ever being fully-functional human beings.
A simple example of this is that often part-time hours would allow me to continue working and there is nothing in the ADA/EEO or FMLA that guarantees a worker's right to keep their job at part-time indefinitely. The obligation to perform to the level of a typical worker is squarely on the shoulders of the disabled. Good luck finding an employer generous enough to deal with all of your needs.
85% of the people with my diagnosis are unemployed despite the fact most of us want to work. The algorithms will probably help make sure it's more like 90-95% of us. But at least the stakeholder involvement process makes people feel like they have a voice even as they are categorically excluded from ever being fully-functional human beings.