SAP, a German software company, will hire hundreds of autistic people to develop software

An SAP software company based in Württemberg, Germany announced 21st that it will hire hundreds of people with autism to participate in http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10185.html "> Software Testing and Programming."
The SAP personnel director, referring to the company's hiring plan, said he was looking for "someone with another way of thinking". The company employs 65000 people worldwide, and by 2020 the number of employees suffering from autism will reach 1%.

The project was extended to the Irish branch last year in 2011, when SAP started hiring 6 autistic patients for software testing in India's research and development department. From now on, the company decided to extend the experience of India and Ireland to Germany, the United States and Canada.

Experts who study autism say autistic patients are characterized by accuracy, precision, memory, and special logical thinking. The IT field provides a very wide range of work for autistic patients.

However, companies employing autistic patients must first have the necessary conditions to provide them with accurate day-to-day structure, clear work schedules, and the tasks to be undertaken must be very clear. In addition, autistic people are sensitive to the surrounding sound, do not understand the implicit expression, but also do not understand the irony of words, and ordinary people get along more difficult. SAP says it will specialize in a training unit that accepts autistic patients.

Autism usually results from growth disorders during infancy. Autistic children reject body or eye contact, do not understand body language such as smiles, and isolate themselves from others. They are very sensitive to the changes in their surroundings. These characteristics do not mean that autistic people must have mental disorders, their intelligence is sometimes similar to ordinary people, and sometimes may have a special talent in mathematics, technology and music.

About 1% of human beings are known to have autism.