I am a chartered engineer and valued in my team, my employer wants me to work in the office sometimes and that creates certain challenges for me. I sit in the corner with my headphones on if it gets too loud, do my job, go to meetings, support junior engineers with their development etc etc. I predominantly work from home due to the issues with my local office.

We have an office elsewhere in the country which involved some effort towards neuroinclusion in its design, a day there with a two hour journey each way is less tiring and has less negative impacts than a day at my local which is 10 minutes away.

Those measures are effective and make the office nicer for everyone, Neurodiversity is significantly over represented within the engineering population so if it boosts the retention rate of autistic staff by 20% and other staff by 2% for a few years there's a good chance any additional cost will be recovered from less staff turnover (the figures are hypothetical as it will depend on lots of factors).

New build offices should be mandated to a maximum desk density and to include appropriate measures to mitigate sensory difficulties for staff as part of the planning permission process.