Digital Labor Market – Digital Skills And Assistive Technology Required For People With Disabilities Accessibility

Significantly accelerated in recent decades, digitalization has transformed almost all processes, activities, the economy, and society as a whole, through the use of digital technology. The labor market has naturally responded to technological progress and the needs of employees and employers in an increasingly digitally connected environment, transforming itself into a digital labor market. Online recruitment platforms, freelancing sites, professional social networks, and other digital channels today facilitate the process of recruiting and hiring in the online environment, offering flexibility, access to a wider range of opportunities for both employers and employees and not least, in turn promoting diversity and inclusion in the labor market. The digitalization of recruitment workplaces and work brings with it a series of advantages especially for disadvantaged categories such as people with disabilities, opening up new opportunities and removing certain barriers that they encounter in traditional work environments like discrimination, physical accessibility, inflexible schedules, additional costs for travel to the workplace, etc. However, not to be neglected are the challenges people with disabilities face in adapting to new technologies and work models as digital skills and assistive technology necessities. This paper aims to highlight the advantages of the digitalization of the labor market vs. the traditional one, its impact and the benefits brings to employees with disabilities or those who want to be employed despite their physical or cognitive limitations. Also, some basic required digital skills and assistive technology for disabled people’s employment and job success are focused on.