| Inside spring 2021 | 
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|  Tweets  4 Comments via Twitter | ||||||
| 26 |  The Year of the Pandemic : How Business Adapted |  Photo credit : Sounder Bruce , Creative Commons |  In Focus  6 AWB Events  Of Note  7 Interesting milestones  Inside AWB  8 How AWB is working for you  Events  11 AWB ’ s calendar of events  Columns  From the Chair  10 Brian Forth  Eye on Business  13 Kris Johnson | |||
|  Covid-19 accelerated workplace transformations . | ||||||
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|  In Their Words |  Industry | |||||
|  A Q & A with Dr . Umair Shah 14 Debbie Ritenour What ’ s Working  The Washington Employers Who Inspired Us in 2020 16 Lori Maricle and Andrew Lenderman SECURE Act Helps Small Businesses Offer Robust Retirement Benefits 22 Debbie Ritenour |  Rural Communities Must Take Risks to Find New Opportunities 35 Andrew Lenderman Manufacturing  Making it ! Washington ’ s Manufacturing and Technology Sectors Uplift State Economy 38 Richard S . Davis Doing Business As | |||||
|  Education and Workforce  Tractor Training in Walla Walla 32 Brian Mittge |  Greysam Industrial Services 42 Brian Mittge |