Adobe is growing. Over the past two years, our global employee base has grown by more than 30%. This growth includes our successful transformation to a cloud-based business, our expansion to lead the digital marketing category, and several acquisitions including advertising technology leader TubeMogul.

To position Adobe for even greater success and growth in the future, today we unveiled our plans to expand our California and Utah facilities. This is a major investment in our U.S. presence and will add capacity for approximately 5,000 employees. Through construction of the new buildings, Adobe will also be able to increase the percentage of our employees in LEED/Green-certified buildings, which currently stands at 78%.

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She works hard for the money. (So hard for the money.)

To be frank, the stats regarding women in the Utah workplace are less than fun. At the Women Tech Council’s Talent Innovation Summit, Cydni Tetro, co-founder and executive director of WTC, outlined the tough trends.

Compared to similarly employed men, women earn 70 cents on the dollar. And if current trends continue, women’s pay rates won’t catch men’s until 2102 (yes, 2102!).

Women are also underrepresented at manager, executive and senior-executive level positions. At the moment, they lag more than 5 percent behind men in STEM-related jobs.

And while women in managerial and professional occupations rose from 30 to 38 percent from 2005 […]

The STEM Partners Foundation today announced the release of the STEM
Mentor Exchange (STEM MX), a mobile app designed to connect teachers
with industry volunteers and resources, and provide students with the
learning experiences that will prepare them for the thousands of new
STEM-skilled jobs being created every day. In Utah alone, it is
predicted that STEM jobs over the next 10 years will grow 25% compared
to 20% for all other jobs.

STEM MX will make it easier for teachers to invite skilled volunteers
into their classrooms to assist in teaching a wide range of STEM-Plus
subjects, from computer coding to elementary grade fundamentals, or
provide support for: special projects, science fairs, guest lectures,
industry tours, work-based learning experiences, etc.

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Benzinga

In these markets, where top companies are competing against each other to lure the top talent from a limited resource pool, the employment version of the “law of the wild” produces results that are simply more fair.

“When companies recruit on a pure, talent-first basis, it creates the most high-performing team,” Tetro said. “It also creates an employee base that is naturally balanced and diverse.”

Cathy Donahoe, an executive from American Fork business software titan Domo, said her company has embraced the talent-first credo since its inception.

And, Donahoe said, Domo offers a lot […]