Workforce research · 2026
The Impact of Neurodiversity on the Workforce 2026
Building a clearer picture of how neurodiversity affects working life, for neurodivergent employees and for employees raising someone neurodivergent.
30 Sep
The survey closes 30 September 2026. Participating organisations receive the report before public release.
The missing workforce picture
The two groups this report measures
Both answer the same practical questions about the working day: working hours, absence, focus and career decisions. The aim is evidence employers can use, rather than another national number they cannot locate in their own organisation.
75%
of parents of children with SEND reduce their hours or quit work altogether.1
1Parents raising a neurodivergent child
The group almost no research measures
Employees who are parent-carers of someone neurodivergent, most often their child, are largely invisible in workplace research. School meetings, appointments and paperwork land in the middle of the working day, and almost nothing measures the cumulative effect inside individual workplaces.
This is the report's distinctive contribution: the hours reduced, the absence taken, the focus lost and the career decisions quietly made by parents your organisation already employs.
2Adults who are neurodivergent themselves
Beyond the national averages
Most workplace neurodiversity research starts here, with employees who are themselves neurodivergent. National figures exist, but they rarely tell an employer anything about their own organisation.
The survey asks this group the same practical questions: how being neurodivergent at work shapes hours, absence, focus and career decisions. Nobody has to disclose a diagnosis to their employer to take part.
1 Sense, 2026. Measured nationally, invisible in almost every individual workforce.
A five-minute survey. One simple forward.
Remarkable Minds runs the survey and produces the report. We make participation deliberately light for employers and private for employees.
We write the invitation
You receive a short internal note, ready to edit or forward to all staff.
Employees respond privately
Neurodivergent employees and employees who are parent-carers can complete the anonymous online survey in their own time. It takes under five minutes.
You receive the findings
Participating organisations receive the full report before it is released publicly, with a company benchmark where 20 or more responses are completed.
Beyond the research
Want to see how we support organisations?
Remarkable Minds connects employees raising neurodivergent children with vetted SEND specialists, in one-to-one video sessions booked around work and family life.
What your organisation receives
Insight you can act on
Participation turns an often-hidden workforce experience into a clearer, anonymised picture for the people making decisions.
See what national figures cannot
Understand how neurodiversity shows up inside your own workforce, including the effect of parent-caring on hours, absence, focus and career decisions.
Benchmark your organisation
When 20 or more employees respond, you receive your anonymised, aggregate company results alongside the national picture. The response floor protects employee anonymity.
Plan with better evidence
Use a clearer workforce picture to inform benefits, manager support, employee listening and retention decisions without asking anyone to disclose a diagnosis.
Privacy by design
Individual answers stay individual
The survey only works if employees trust it. Every design decision protects the person answering before it serves the employer reading.
Anonymous responses
Employees answer individually online. They do not need to disclose a diagnosis to their employer to take part.
Aggregate findings only
Employers never see individual answers. Company-level results are provided only after 20 completed responses.
No extra data agreement
There is no employer data-sharing agreement beyond the survey itself, and no obligation to act on the findings.
A straightforward thank-you
Employees at participating organisations receive 15% off Remarkable Minds sessions, without giving up their anonymity.
Put the survey in front of your workforce
We'll send the ready-written internal note. You can review it, edit it and decide whether to forward it.