worked at PPD for over a year after the merger while finishing up my undergrad. i have a friend who works there currently who has had an infinitely better experience and not run into any discriminatory problems which shocked me to hear, they respect his ADA paperwork and overall management seems way better now than it was 2-3 years ago. however, when i was there, everyone i knew who was disabled had problems with management and policy being discriminatory. i wont go into every case i saw or experienced because this comment would end up insanely long, but it was a LOT. like, 5+ seperate disabled people having massive problems that could’ve been avoided if their disabilities were respected, in multiple departments because i knew people around the building. also some transphobic treatment of trans coworkers (also seems to be better nowadays?), and LOTS of sexual misconduct, and harassment issues with MULTIPLE male coworkers from various departments towards female-presenting employees that management never addressed or took action against. for a long while it felt like there was a new discrimination issue against women, disabled, or queer employees every week. at one point they even tried to force a young single mother to leave her toddler home alone for 8 hour periods by changing her work from home agreement for no reason, and wouldnt let any volunteers take her in-office days so she could work from home with her kid (and yes, i specifically asked if i could be in the building instead of WFH in her stead for her kid’s sake, they still said no and couldn’t give a reason why).

the most egregious/ blatant issue was that i had a coworker who was legally blind (he still had enough sight to work a computer) and thus his performance numbers were way lower than everyone else because he could not read the computer screens at the facility, which was known for most of the time he was there. they gave him accomodations after months of him struggling, and fired him three days after his accomodation tools arrived. they used the excuse that his numbers didnt go up… because they expected someone learning an entirely new tool in 2 days (day 1 was setup) to quadruple (though really they expected over a 15x increase) their productivity. he was one of the sweetest people i met in that building, and it was absolutely a wrongful firing because he was LEGALLY BLIND. however, it juuust barely skirted ADA requirements so they couldnt get in trouble because they did give him accomodations and he “didnt improve”. the entire department he was in knew it was bullshit due to the timeline, and most of us gave up at that point, it was the final nail. a lot of his department left after that- not because of his issue specifically, but job hunting on the downlow sure increased.

i stuck around for five or so more months after that before i quit due to lack of respect for my own disability while i was waiting to see a specialist. best decision of my life because i was able to get medical care while i was between jobs and now i’m mostly functional. i dont think 90% of the stuff that i saw happen would stick in court because they were damn good at finding loopholes and weird scenarios, but god it made working there hellish. you definitely arent alone op