Guest: Kirsten Sutton, SAP Canada

1% of people in the world has autism. One company has mandated that 1% of its workforce should too.

SAP Canada's Kirsten Sutton says this is not some "feel good" program. Rather, it's a program that is reshaping the company and is paying dividends.

"This is not a philanthropic endeavor. We have open roles that we can't fill. Folks on that spectrum are absolutely suited for these roles, and they're not getting employed. So we're filling roles with people that have amazing talents. We've had folks start first day in a software testing role, find a bug in the software that's been there 15 years, nobody else has identified it."

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