It seems like the reporter from The Atlantic came up with a hypothesis and set out to write an article to &quot;prove&quot; it. I don&#x27;t see any reporting, as in speaking to current or former Zappos employees, learning what Holocracy is, or investigating its long-term effects. In other words, this is just an opinion piece.<p>Extrapolating a general condemnation of an entire business system like Holocracy from a single data point is bad journalism, to say the least. Casually lumping all &quot;flat&quot; structures together and cherry-picking research to support a hypothesis (hierarchies work!) is lazy, and does the reader a disservice.<p>I&#x27;d be very interested in some actual reporting to see how things are going at Zappos. It&#x27;s possible that Holocracy is not turning out well. It&#x27;s also possible that the turnover was exactly what they needed, and a positive new model of work is emerging. Unfortunately, this article didn&#x27;t do any reporting, so it&#x27;s unable to serve as anything more than a traffic-generating question mark.