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Tony Hsieh, the late former CEO of Zappos, famously pioneered the concept of paying new, unhappy employees $2,000 to quit in order to maintain a happy, productive workforce

Summary List Placement Tony Hsieh, the late ex-CEO of online retailer Zappos, is known for his trailblazing workplace policies - including one in which the company offered up to $2,000 to unhappy new employees to leave the company, essentially bribing them to quit.
According to a 2008 Harvard Business Review article, Hsieh's "The Offer" program was a policy that entailed asking new employees if they'd like to quit following a four-week training period. If they chose to, Zappos would pay them a bonus on top of their full salary during their time worked at the company. The bonus rose over...
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Tony Hsieh once ran a radical organizational experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit. Here's an inside look at how the late Zappos CEO made his self-management vision a reality

1 month ago | By Business Insider

Summary List Placement On March 24, Zappos' 1,500 or so employees got a memo from CEO Tony Hsieh.
"This is a long email," it began. "Please take 30 minutes to read through the email in its entirety."
It concerned the retailer's transition to "Holacracy," a manager-free operating structure that is composed, in theory, of equally privileged employees working in task-specific circles, often overlapping.
Hsieh began experimenting with Holacracy in 2013 as a way of maintaining Zappos' lauded employee-centric culture as it continued to grow.
The transition was supposed to have finished within a...
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