In this episode of The Team Check-In, Emre sits down with Elaine Lin Hering, former Harvard Law School lecturer and author of the USA Today bestseller Unlearning Silence, to talk about why people stop speaking up at work. Elaine defines silence as the withholding of self for the comfort and convenience of others, and she explains how the silence we learn growing up follows us into every meeting, review and survey. You'll hear why "just speak up" rarely works, when staying quiet is actually the smart call, and the everyday habits that shut colleagues down without anyone noticing. Elaine also makes the case that falling engagement survey response rates are a sign of inaction fatigue, and shows HR leaders how to change the cost of speaking up so the best ideas surface early.