With the COVID outbreak, employees are feeding off your positive vibes or nervous energy. At this point, they should be your No. 1 priority.

Back in the 1990s, it was publicly traded companies that were buying up HVAC contractors. This time, it’s private equity professionals.

Unless you do financial training, your employees will see the “stuff” that it takes to run the business, but will have no clue of the true costs.

A friend of mine runs the mechanical systems group at a data center. It’s a decent job and he likes it most of the time. But, like many people, he sometimes wonders if there might be a little greener grass or new horizons to be found elsewhere. So when a local school district let it be known they were looking for an experienced HVAC guy to take care of the systems at their brand-new combined high school/middle school, he looked into it. And the interview experience was eye-opening.

Now, more than ever, customers are concerned about having us out to their home.

Employers today are routinely confronted with employee medical issues that impact the workplace, and these do not exclude mental health.