 Erik Adams of "The A.V.Club" awarded the episode a "B+" and felt that, as the show lost viewers in the first season, the stories got better, and that "Diversity Day" is an excellent example of this "unfortunate trend".He noted that the episode "would go on to be one of the series’ defining episodes, an installment that put a more hopeful spin on the original "Office"s views on accepting the disparity between our dreams and our realities."