Accountability and decisions · 9 June 2026
A company can calculate and pay its PFRON mandate accurately for years without deciding what to do about the cost. Accounting records the consequence; it cannot provide a sponsor, an owner of the work or readiness to implement. The mandate tests something else: can the organisation bring finance, real work, process ownership and a board decision into one decision-making process?
If the amount is material, do not start by asking how many candidates might be available. Map the decision first: who sees the cost, who can launch the project, who supplies the work and how the company will know whether it worked. That cuts the distance from discussion to pilot and lets us assess an outcome rather than a meeting count. A company is entitled to keep the status quo. It should recognise that this, too, is a decision with a price. That is where the PFRON mandate becomes a test of maturity rather than another budget line.
Originally published 9 June 2026.
