Business View Magazine | December 2020

32 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 industry, Comstock Construction experiences the challenge of finding a quality workforce. The company solves this challenge in a two-pronged manner. Flack recounts, “Our first approach is maintaining a high retention rate for existing employees by promoting and exemplifying our core values. We hire employees around those core values and try to live those core values every day. We are a fairly large company, but also kind of a small family-owned company, too. The owners are actively involved – they’re right down the hallway from us, so although it’s a large company, we do have a small feel to us. Because of this, although we struggle like everyone else to find quality workers, once we get them, we keep them for a long time.” “The second approach we use is maintaining a relationship with trade schools in the area,” he continues. “They’ve got great programs for the skilled trades, and we are in constant contact with them. We speak to their classes, work with them, help them improve their curriculum if business IT managed services audio visual copiers & printers “Dark web. Schmark web. My technical team makes me a force to be reckoned with.” Marco’s Managed IT can beef up your infrastructure to stop threats dead in their tracks. Find out what your technology could be saying at marconet.com. Director of Pre-Construction Jason Flack