When I left that company, I took them with me to my newer, smaller, leaner business and struck a new deal with them: salary rather than hourly wages, no time clock, a workspace all theirs alone to do with as they saw fit, and only one imperative: The required work had to be done and every order fulfilled and shipped by the end of each week. Some weeks they might work a lot, other weeks little. They outfitted their space with a refrigerator and microwave; she brought food and cooked meals. Some days they were invisible but came in at night, with their young toddler, and worked into the wee
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