Business View Magazine | Volume 9, Issue 3

179 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3 work with their companies and their end-users to ship proper office chairs to 800 individual locations across the country. We’ve also seen demand for higher-quality desks as C-suite personnel started to get their home offices set up.” Of course, the difficulties created by the pandemic did not just affect COE Distributing’s sales, they also impacted the wellbeing of its employees. The company has around 125 members of staff and is proud to confirm that not a single one of those was laid off or put on furlough. “We also announced that we were giving each of our employees an additional 80 hours of paid time off,” Ewing says. “This could be used if an employee or anyone in their care was impacted by the virus or they simply needed a mental health day because of the stressors that are out there that we had never dealt with before. Plus, we still increased wages just as we normally would do in both 2020 and 2021, FRE I GHT B R O K E R A G E A N D E X P E D I T E D S O L U T I O N S Full Truckload (FTL) Less Than Truckload (LTL) Ground Expedite Air Freight Intermodal Freight Management Carrier Qualification Insurance Verification Load Tracking Freight Bill Auditing Manifest Invoicing TMS COMPLETE FLEET SOLUTIONS Deliver your next load quickly, easily and with confidence BOOK YOUR NEXT LOAD 866-484-3195 | truckload@aimntls.com COE DI STR I BUT ING