> But this month Amazon-owned online shoe retailer Zappos.com, a leading proponent of no-boss, non-hierarchical governance, was rocked by a mass employee defection.
The headline is utterly misleading - nowhere in the article is there any evidence that employees hate holacracy and want to return to the old days. The closest they get is citing the people who chose the Zappos redundancy package, but there are many reasons one might take such an offer - especially since the severance package includes at least 3 months of salary.