Many employers were forced to shift jobs to work-at-home models at the onset of the pandemic.1 Not surprisingly, one of the results of this change was fewer job accommodation requests. In fact, some employers saw a 32% decrease in accommodation incident rates from 2019 to 2020, and it stayed relatively flat through 2021.
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