Dealer: Richard Garber

Dealership group: Garber Automotive Group

Full-time employees: 47

General Manager Paul Bobo on learning how to be a better employer from managing through the pandemic: “Don’t count out the ability of your team to excel in trying times; the right people under pressure will lift you up.”

Bobo on long-term changes in hiring or employment practices because of the pandemic: “We have added multiple positions to our team to help service and sell vehicles outside of our dealership, and that is here to stay.”

Bobo on improving employee retention: “Keeping our employee needs top of mind, rewarding employees that excel in their field and showing our appreciation by cooking for them, having Kona Ice day each week and keeping them stocked up with drinks daily”

Fixed Operations Director Bob Viccica on offering employees a career path: “We clearly lay out a training curriculum and create short-term and long-term goals for each employee, [create] a family environment for them, [help] them both at work and outside of work.”