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Thank you for your review of Updike Distribution Logistics. We believe strongly in our culture and our positive and rewarding work environment. We have many loyal employees, about 20% of our employees have been with us over 5 years. In addition, just this past year we promoted 22 employees. We stand by “our growth is your growth” and we have a management team who strives to coach and mentor their highest-performing employees. Our growth, like any other growing organization, has oftentimes presented us with some unique challenges, but those are the areas we look at more as opportunities to improve. We like the challenge and look to hire employees who also thrive when faced challenges. We learn more through challenges, right? We encourage all employees to give their feedback in whatever forum they feel most comfortable. We have some employees who will walk unannounced into the executive’s offices and give it face-to-face (they don’t belittle when employees do this by the way, they enjoy speaking with our employees), others may direct it at their manager, or the surveys our human resources team send out, or on external review boards such as Glassdoor. Whether you are in Information Technology, Transportation, Warehousing, Sales, and yes, even Human Resources (we are employees, too) – we encourage all our employees to give their feedback. Our vacation allotments are standard across our industry with 1 week after the first year, 2 weeks after 2 years, and 3 weeks after 5 years. We also offer paid sick leave, we follow state law so employees receive 24-40 hours of paid sick leave. In addition, for those who work in a role where we can allow flexibility, we offer flexible work schedules to allow employees to leave early to attend their kids swim lessons, volunteer with their favorite charitable organization, work from home when their children are ill, and various other reasons. For those positions that aren’t as flexible within our organization and may not allow flexible schedules, when time off is needed – it is usually granted. We believe all employees need to refresh and come back to work reenergized. Our drivers especially love the consistent home time. Our management philosophy is that we are all working managers. It is not unusual for a manager to cover a shift, whether it be filling in for a forklift operator, customer service representative, or work a driver manager role for the day. We have conservative roots, we spend wisely, we run lean. We do this to give our employees a stable paycheck. They have families who they need to support and we recognize we have an important responsibility to ensure they continue to support them with as little worry as possible. We hope this response provides clarity on your concerns. Again, thank you for your review.