If you want to keep your assistant or employee around, you need to above market salary and flexibility. Then you need to make sure the employee feels properly v

If you want to keep your assistant or employee around, you need to above market salary and flexibility. Then you need to make sure the employee feels properly valued. If you don't get it right the first time, you'll get it right the second. The important thing is to be above market in everything: salary, perks, work environment, etc. Then you can have these kind of aspirations, realistically.