You may remember this post from July, Bureaucracy, Autocracy, Holacracy? Online shoe retailer Zappos was ditching a traditional business plan for the more free-form governance known as holacracy. In theory, the plan offered each employee an equal say in various parts of the business. Flash forward to January 2016 where employees have left the company in droves due to this new found “freedom.” The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Experiment.