Dealer: Richard Garber

Dealership group: Garber Automotive Group

Full-time employees: 85

General Manager Rich Perdue on learning how to be a better employer from managing through the pandemic: “If anything, we have found out that our people are bigger rock stars than we ever could have thought.”

Perdue on diversity, equity and inclusion as it relates to hiring and employment: “We offer defined career paths, mentoring by senior staff, and interviewing potential candidates by senior staff.”

Perdue on improving employee retention: “Bringing the techs in for ‘best practices’ toward retention for them and the Growers [training program] to help our culture thrive”

Perdue on offering employees a career path: “Onboarding surveys, coupled with ongoing training and promoting from within whenever possible”