Dealer: Gregg Kunes

Dealership group: Kunes Country Auto Group

Full-time employees: 58

General Manager Tony Wheatley on lessons from the pandemic about being a better employer:
“When you think that you’ve got everything figured out, it was a character-builder for management to face such adversity. We all grew closer because of it.”

Wheatley on changing hiring and training because of the pandemic:
“Just a good ‘tighten up’ for all managers to make sure that we didn’t miss a step in training”

Wheatley on making work schedules more balanced or flexible:
“Our team knows that we will do almost anything to work out an acceptable schedule for them.”