Good question. There's a body of literature on 'employee silence' in the workplace. Off the top of my head, silence is almost entirely fear based. Those in less

Good question. There's a body of literature on 'employee silence' in the workplace. Off the top of my head, silence is almost entirely fear based. Those in lesser positions are worried about a number of bad individual outcomes from speaking up. Frances Milliken out of NYU is whose research I read the most, although I think the Wikipedia page is fine as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_silence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_silence