Fear of unemployment (layoffs) and social-media, performance-based appraisals may mute IBM's employees, but they are speaking loud and clear in other ways: in their productivity and with their wallets.
Maybe the Drucker Institute and the Wall Street Journal will one day look deeper into IBM's real problems because they will finally acknowledge some dire corporate symptoms: a three-decade decline in employee stock purchase plan participation and a two-decade decline in employee revenue and profit productivity.
https://www.discerningreaders.com/ibm-employee-stock-purchase-plan-espp.html