Dealer: Gregg Kunes

Dealership group: Kunes Auto Group

Full-time employees: 39

General Manager Andy Busch on learning how to be a better employer from managing through the pandemic: “We have learned even more in these times that it’s important to trust your employees in terms of their health, and also it has reinforced for us that many of our employees are also parents and they are navigating through all of this as parents, and we need to be understanding of that.”

Busch on long-term changes in hiring or employment practices because of the pandemic: “The pandemic has allowed us to realize we can become more empathetic to our employees and their needs, and we will continue to treat them as family and do what we can to help.”

Busch on diversity, equity and inclusion as it relates to hiring and employment: “The most important thing we can do as an employment practice is continue to ask our employees to care for each other like family and to be open and empathetic to the needs of all people.”

Busch on offering employees a career path: “It’s easiest to offer opportunity by showing all of the success stories we have and documenting the success and growth of our group.”