Adobe Announces New Wellbeing Approach Focused on Community & Collective Wellbeing

The events of the past two years have upended how we define the modern workplace, spurring many companies globally to rethink their employee experience. It has become clear that employees expect companies to go beyond offering great pay and traditional benefits to prioritise flexibility and holistic wellbeing. Wellbeing has become a key measure of employee engagement and thereby business success that all companies need to embrace.

At Adobe, we have always believed that when employees feel taken care of in and outside the office, they are empowered to do their best work. Each of our employees has unique needs and experiences, so it’s critical that we stay in tune with our people to be able to provide comprehensive and inclusive benefits that support their complete selves.

From progressive fertility benefits that make reproductive services more accessible and affordable; to holistic time off benefits including up to six months of parental leave, and regular companywide days off to recharge together; to pay parity across gender and race, prioritising the complete wellbeing of our employees has been essential to our growth and success.

Why We’re Evolving Our Wellbeing Program

While we’re incredibly proud of our leading programs today, we recognise that our future success hinges not only on individual wellbeing but about our collective wellbeing as an Adobe team. Through our continuous pulses of employee sentiment and needs, we are driving the future of benefits at Adobe with a focus on community, connection and wellbeing.

Community & Connection

• Developing communities and forums for knowledge sharing: Wellbeing needs to flow within our culture and mindsets, and that requires normalising talking about it in the workplace. We’re introducing events, programming and resources that aim to destigmatise these topics through storytelling. This includes employees coming together to share their experiences on certain topics and the benefits that supported them, and health and wellness professionals sharing expertise and proactive strategies that support the present needs of our employees.
• Supporting people managers: People managers play a critical role in the success of any business, taking care of their teams while keeping priorities moving, and it’s important that they feel mental and emotional support from their colleagues and Adobe. We’re creating moments for managers to explore topics that are top of mind like the connection between wellbeing and performance, managing stress and anxiety to build mental resilience within teams, and putting their health first to role model behaviors that promote a culture of wellbeing.
• Specialised support for teams: When certain teams are particularly impacted by macro events, we provide specialised therapy and healing sessions, so they feel safe and supported through tough times. For example, we’ve hosted therapist-led sessions on topics such as how to mediate challenging relationships, regulating stress and emotions, and providing guidance and support to families hosting refugees during the Ukraine War.

Personal Wellbeing

• New and extended time off benefits: We introduced companywide days off at the start of the pandemic to allow our global workforce to unplug and recharge together. What started as a temporary benefit has now become a cultural staple at Adobe, so we are extending our Global Wellbeing Days off through 2023. We’ve also introduced Disaster and Epidemic Time Off to help our employees through the pandemic as well as significant world events and natural disasters that they may be directly impacted by.
• New family and reproductive benefits: Work and life have become more blended than ever, and we want to provide benefits to support our employees in their personal and family journeys. New fertility, family leave and menopause services are available to Adobe team members in Europe. Employees, their partners or spouses have complimentary access to Peppy Menopause and Peppy Fertility services including one-to-one access to experts, online resources or moderated group chats. Gender affirming services including outpatient consultations with psychiatrists, psychologists or endocrinologists, and initial consultations about hormone replacement therapy are also provided for LGBTQIA+ groups.
• Increased access to wellbeing tools: We provide all our employees free access to wellbeing apps, including Headspace and LifeDojo. Recognising the importance of community and social support for adopting and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, we added a +1 for each employee so they can share the apps with a friend or family member.

At Adobe, we’ve always recognised that people are our greatest asset. As we create a new future where employee wellbeing is a foundational business driver and key to Adobe’s culture, we want to empower everyone to prioritise wellbeing.