Walgreens creates employment opportunities
Walgreens distribution center in South Carolina employees include 35% with disabilities. They purposely designed the center to meet the needs of all of the employees. They took a different approach to the assembly line and got rid of the keyboards and monitors and replaced them with touch-screen monitors and pictures icons and more automation. Opportunities for training are available and natural supports are built in the workplace. Walgreens plans to open another distribution center in Connecticut in 2009 using the same model. How did they move in this direction? How might other companies do the same?