Does it matter? The start of the article is talking about reporting stuff _to their employer_, not e.g. a government watchdog or something. > 53% of software e

Does it matter? The start of the article is talking about reporting stuff _to their employer_, not e.g. a government watchdog or something. > 53% of software engineers have suspected wrongdoing at work with ~145,000 software engineers in the UK having experienced retaliation the last time they reported it _to their employers_. (emphasis mine) If your company is silently setting the policy that _internal communication_ raising that something bad is going on will be punished, then you're creating an environment where all of these will flourish. Even if the reporter is mistaken about whether something is illegal, or holds a moral view which is not shared by most of upper management, the responsible response is still, "thanks for raising this to our attention; we'll have someone appropriately unrelated to the complaint look into it." If your response is "telling us about bad stuff will be punished" then obviously when something bad occurs that you'd actually want to stop (e.g. b/c it will create legal liabilities, damage the brand, etc), you'll learn about it too late. Even the framing of high rates of "retaliation" sort of presumes that _reporting something wrong_ internally is a hostile action, which is already toxic and dangerous.