173 Guidance of employees with a work disability to improve sustainable employability interviews were open coded by one researcher (VS). Forth, during axial coding all codes were discussed, and categories of codes were formed (VS, RS). Fifth, continuous consultation between the researchers (VS, RS, PC) and constant comparison took place to increase the reliability of the codes. New categories were created, renamed, merged, and eventually visualized to obtain a clear overview of how the codes related to each other. Sixth, selective coding led to the formation of themes during a consensus meeting (VS, RS, PC). See supplementary file 2 for the codebook. These themes were narratively described, to describe the experiences of employees with a work disability. Transcripts were not returned to the employees for comments and/or corrections, and no member check took place. Though, in all stages of the data-analyses the researchers critically reflected on the codes, categories and themes that emerged from the data, by checking the interpretations obtained in each phase and by going continuously back to the data. Themes were substantiated with relevant citations from the interviews (that were translated from Dutch into English). Data-analysis was performed in parallel with data-collection, hence researchers could decide whether data-saturation was reached based on the content of the interviews. Results Study Population Interviews were held with twenty-one employees with a work disability whose supervisors followed the Mentorwijs training. It concerned ten interviews, of which seven were group interviews with two or more employees (up to four per interview) and three interviews with one employee. The interviewees consisted of seventeen men (81%) and four women, ranging between 20 to 61 years of age and with a lower (71%), middle (24%) or higher educational level (5%) (Table 1). Employees had a mild intellectual disability (23%), lower education level and/or learning delay (27%), psychological disability (23%), and/or a physical disability (14%). For some employees the disability was unknown (14%), as they were not aware of their disability or were not willing to answer this question. Employees with a work disability had various occupations within various companies, such as gardener (57%), production employee (19%), administrative employee (10%), kitchen worker (10%) or cleaner (5%). 6
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