Business owners weigh in on getting back to work — and what it looks like

Hardware store entrepreneur Michael Wynn wins the day when it comes to finding one way to beat back the pandemic: shower hundreds of front line employees with lots thank you bonuses, customer service bonuses, meals, gift cards and other random tokens of appreciation — in total more than $1.3 million worth of goodies in the pandemic. “We really wanted to acknowledge the effort people are putting forward,” says Wynn, president of Naples-based Sunshine Ace Hardware.