When Zappos famously gave their employees an ultimatum to embrace holacracy or leave, the HR and business worlds took notice. One of the retail industry’s most successful players was embracing a somewhat radical HR notion: the idea of dismantling departments and empowering employees to self-manage. The company believed that more relaxed management structures could generate better business results and better fit workers’ desire for a more flexible environment.
According to the ADP Research Institute® study The Evolution of Work: The Changing Nature of the Global Workforce, 64 percent of workers felt positively about less structured work environments.
