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Workplace assessment

sab99

My husband has an aspergers diagnosis and his employer has recently initiated a workplace assessment report for him. The report which has been produced seems very negative, overstates his difficulties and has made him feel worthless and undervalued at work, despite having generally good performance in appraisals.  Has anyone else had experience of these assessments and been affected in the same way ?

  • Yes I agree with you Asperix, but you don't have to exhibit challenging behaviour to anger bosses.  Not understanding what they mean, becoming easily distressed, avoiding anything that could be thought of as conflict, avoiding them, also annoys them.  They found me "bizzaire" not challenging. It is because I cannot work with people that I am not employed despite three degrees and some supposedly sought after skills.  I have technical competence but not social.

  • I can understand him feeling demoralised if it doesn’t talk about his strengths as well as difficulties, but his employers have a responsibility to adapt the work place to his “disability” and so they need to know where there may be potential problems in the future.  It sounds like they already know his abilities from his appraisal. Perhaps he should see it as ‘Part 2 – areas where problems might occur if not known about.’

     

    When I was working I found that my competence in the actual work was never a problem, it was me “as an employee” that they had difficulty with.  I never understood what that difficulty was.  Someone with Asperger’s can be highly competent but can have real difficulty with people in the work place, and he or she does not necessarily realise this.  I was once told I was being referred to an advisor because my “communication with senior management had broken down”; this was complete news to me.  I didn’t have a diagnosis at that time. 

     

    More recently I have had to complete the “Work capability assessment” which was very demoralising as it necessarily had to focus on what I could not do and the difficulties of a workplace.