“…However, if highly visible, highly compensated, highly valuable employees can be subject to reprisals for workplace activism, the results here are a strong assertion of the potential for reprisals against virtually any stratum of the workforce. And it is that very potential for reprisals that stifles workplace activism, as seventh‐round draft picks were 77 percent less likely to join the anthem protest than their safer first‐round colleagues (Niven, ), and office workers avoid taking stands in conflict with the CEO's thinking (Briscoe, Chin, and Hambrick, ), and fast food workers wonder if speaking out will mean the end of their jobs (Meyer, ).…”