Higher Education Staff - Interview-Stage Accommodation

August in review, and what September holds. This month covered four things: the severity threshold that keeps people from asking, what to do the week after a denial, career progression accommodations, and how to request an accommodation at the interview stage. The piece that mattered most to me was the collaboration with Tim Hemenway. Six weeks of work, substantial editorial pushback from him that reshaped the article’s spine, and a framing I have not stopped thinking about since: accommodations are not exceptions to operations. They are operational challenges to solve collaboratively. That reframe is going to shape how I write about employer-side practice for a long time. Three things I am carrying into September: The permission gap is the real problem. Not information. Not policy. The internal calculation that determines whether someone believes the framework applies to them. I want to write more directly about that. Interview-stage accommodation deserves more attention than it gets. Almost nobody is writing about it, and the questions I received this month suggest significant unmet need. Peer collaboration produces work I cannot produce alone. Tim’s contribution is the clearest evidence, but the pattern holds across every substantive exchange I have had this year. More of that in the second half. September will open a second industries series. The three under consideration: federal workforce, higher education, and first responders. If you work in one of those and would be willing to talk through what the accommodation conversation looks like from inside it, I would like to hear from you. Thank you to everyone who read, commented, and pushed back this month. Free Storybook if you are just finding this work: https://lnkd.in/eNScTCUj #WorkplaceAccommodations #ADA #InformedChoicesStrategy