Implementation of the Public Policy for Labor Inclusion of People with Disabilities: architectural resources for mitigating attitudinal barriers in outsourced environments.
Labor inclusion; attitudinal barriers; integrative architecture; people with disabilities; accessibility.
This research project focuses on the implementation of public policies for the labor inclusion of people with disabilities. Its scope includes investigating the contributions that architecture, as a science of space design, its functions, and its uses, can offer so that workers with disabilities can enjoy not only the elimination of physical barriers determined by legislation and technical standards, but also the mitigation of attitudinal barriers. Within this theme, the current context of outsourcing and its implications for the contractual heterogeneity of human resources allocated to the same work environment is addressed. The focus is particularly on public institutions, where permanent employees – whether tenured or on probation – share spaces with interns and outsourced workers.
From this perspective, this research proposes to identify the attitudinal barriers imposed on people with disabilities by other workers and to analyze the relationship between their occurrence and prevalence and physical aspects of the work environment that are amenable to architectural measures that mitigate such barriers. Therefore, this research project aims to develop guidelines for designing work environments in which people with disabilities can feel truly integrated into the workforce and not merely included in the workplace, thus contributing to the effectiveness of public policies for labor inclusion and, equally importantly, to the efficiency and effectiveness of institutional efforts undertaken in this regard.