Whistleblowers have more reasons than ever to drop a dime on shady practices in the workplace, but those who do need to worry more about the threat of retaliation.
According to a recent study by the Ethics Resource Center, retaliation rates against whistleblowers are reaching epidemic proportions. A full 15 percent of whistleblowers say they were passed over for raises and promotions, relocated, reassigned, or demoted because they called out wrongdoing in the organization. And even more alarming, nearly a third of those who reported retaliation say the retribution included physical attacks.
