SAP, a large software company, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have found that people with autism can be highly productive employees if they are given good training and a few accommodations. They may need noise-canceling headphones and a quiet place to work. They may also require more time for training, but after they are trained, they will do really accurate work. At Australia’s Department of Human Services, autistic software testers were 30 percent more productive than their non-autistic counterparts.
