Business View Magazine | December 2020

108 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 sites in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to meet virtually with colleagues working in Orlando and Fort Myers, Florida, each morning. Holland Pump also started digitizing all its records a few years ago. That transition, along with early adoption of videoconferencing, made changes necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic easier to manage. Accounting operations have been moved completely offsite. Those employees have been working from home. Blodgett recalls leaders of other businesses expressing concern about employees maintaining focus and productivity while working from home. He has found just the opposite. Not only has the pre-pandemic level of performance been maintained, but employees have appreciated the convenience of working from home, as well as the money and time saved by not having to commute. “And that’s what we’re about,” says Blodgett. “One of our core values is ‘together we win.’ And that applies to our relationship with our customers that together we win, but it also applies to the company itself and all of our employees.” PREFERRED VENDOR n Continental Engines www.continentalengines.com sales@continentalengines.com