roselvaggio such a great question. While I am in the same "bucket" as you are I do not have the answers. I see you are in the US and we are in Canada. Still our struggles are very similiar. Some things we have implemented is we became a Fair Wage Provider. We did an employee survey and this seems to move the needle. We use Slack and along with this platform we use Tacos. In short terms we have built our own reward system. Each employee can collect tacos for gas cards, grocery cards, day off or they can work towards their dream (buy a car, house, study, travel - etc). Otherwise we do have all the flexibility and time off you have described about.
As a business owner I also think we have to be kind to ourselves. Our industry is high turnover - it is an inbetween job. "I will do this until....". People now days have so many opportunities for work and we are way past of employees sticking with the same company for their entire lives.
