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Employee Voice

2 stories about employee voice - what is happening, and what to do about it.

• Mental Health First Aid England · 2 February 2026

  The cost of workplace silence: Nearly half of employees feel unsafe speaking up at work, new research reveals

  The last figure is the one for a board: 15% made a preventable mistake because raising it felt more dangerous than letting it happen. Silence is not a wellbeing line item here, it is an operational risk with a defect rate attached.

• Engage for Success · 2026

  Productivity Starts with People: Key Findings from the 2026 Engage for Success Annual Survey

  Engage for Success asked whether leaders and managers put people issues first. Where staff saw both do it, engagement stood at 79%; where they saw neither, it was 50%, and more than a third of staff saw neither. The same report links command-and-control management with more stress and more people keeping quiet about problems, so the gap is less about perks than about how a manager runs the week.