For the last year and a half, Zappos has been experimenting with Holacracy, an avant-garde management strategy that eliminates bosses and hierarchy. By all accounts, the transition has been rocky. Not everyone at the Amazon.com-owned shoe retailer shares Chief Executive Officer Tony Hsieh's enthusiasm for giving up hard-earned positions on the corporate ladder. Many employees left, urged along by the three months' severance pay available to anyone who didn't want to join up. (Fourteen percent of the Zappos workforce took the deal.) In late June, Hsieh extended a more attractive buyout to a smaller cohort. They have until the end of the year to decide.
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