One of the top reasons people give for wanting to start a business is the desire to be their own boss. One large company that’s shifting its operation to a “no bosses” model has discovered that such a desire is not shared by 100 percent of its workforce.

Zappos, the shoe and apparel e-commerce company owned by Amazon, had 210 (14 percent) of its employees accept a severance package rather than transition to a new “no bosses” management style called Holacracy. (QZ.com recently described it as “the future of management or a social experiment gone awry.”)

According to the Washington Post, Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh’s goal is “to make Zappos a fully self-organized, self-managed organization by combining a variety of different tools and processes.” As a first step, Hsieh asked employees to read a book called Reinventing Organizations and watch a nearly two-hour YouTube video by its author.

As part of the transition, Zappos offered any employee who didn’t want to work under the new system a severance that amounted to three-months pay. The offer was similar to Zappos’ well-known practice of paying new employees up to $2,000 for leaving the company if they don’t feel like working there is a good fit.

(via: Washington Post)