Comments on: Survey Says… Adult ADHD Affects Work and Home http://www.coachlindawalker.com/blog/adhd-work-home/ Strategies, tools, and inspiration for entrepreneurs, adults with ADHD and other creative geniuses Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:57:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Linda Walker http://www.coachlindawalker.com/blog/adhd-work-home/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Linda Walker Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:40:39 +0000 http://www.coachlindawalker.com/blog/?p=60#comment-95 Hi Ruth, The organization that surveyed these ADHD adults was Harris Interactive (NASDAQ:HPOL). They did so for McNeil Pediatrics, division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The comment about companies considering measures to reduce the likelihood of hiring an ADHDer came from an earlier study about ADHDers losing 20 days of productivity a year. The problem these types of reports miss is in explaining that the problem is not that ADHDers are not productive; it's that they could be but because of the stigma of ADHD, they don't come forward to ask for help from their employers. Employers, upon seeing such reports, run in a panic because they don't know that there are things that can be done to help them that are not only cost-effective, but could help these employers to retain creative, out-of-the-box thinkers whose ideas and energy could provide them with competitive advantages. Hi Ruth,

The organization that surveyed these ADHD adults was Harris Interactive (NASDAQ:HPOL).

They did so for McNeil Pediatrics, division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

The comment about companies considering measures to reduce the likelihood of hiring an ADHDer came from an earlier study about ADHDers losing 20 days of productivity a year.

The problem these types of reports miss is in explaining that the problem is not that ADHDers are not productive; it’s that they could be but because of the stigma of ADHD, they don’t come forward to ask for help from their employers.

Employers, upon seeing such reports, run in a panic because they don’t know that there are things that can be done to help them that are not only cost-effective, but could help these employers to retain creative, out-of-the-box thinkers whose ideas and energy could provide them with competitive advantages.

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