Adobe—Discontinued DEI hiring targets and removed Corporate Responsibility page from website
In April 2025, Adobe's Chief People Officer announced the company would 'discontinue' DEI hiring targets, ending 'aspirational representational goals' set in 2020. These had included doubling Black representation and increasing women in leadership to 30% by 2025. The company's Corporate Responsibility page was also removed from the website after Trump's January 2025 executive order targeting DEI.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEI Programs | -against | primary | -1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | -0.497 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.66)× agency (reactive ×0.75)
Evidence (2 signals)
Discontinued DEI hiring targets and removed Corporate Responsibility page from website
In April 2025, Adobe's Chief People Officer announced the company would 'discontinue' DEI hiring targets, ending 'aspirational representational goals' set in 2020. These had included doubling Black representation and increasing women in leadership to 30% by 2025. The company's Corporate Responsibility page was also removed from the website after Trump's January 2025 executive order targeting DEI.
HRD America reported Adobe CPO Gloria Chen announced discontinuation of DEI targets at all-hands meeting
HRD America reported that Adobe CPO Gloria Chen stated at an internal all-hands meeting: 'We will discontinue the practice of setting aspirational representation goals while continuing our focus on fair and consistent hiring practices.' The company's most recent proxy statement no longer mentioned diversity, which was cited 22 times in the 2024 proxy.