Due to the pandemic, the potential for professional dissent is especially high at present. Typically, there’s a buzz in every organizational setting, a sotto voce set of topical dialogues usually intended to be beyond the awareness and purview of its management. It can be as harmless as ‘water cooler talk’ or as serious as grave employee concerns about rumored and/or actual developments. Generally, we don’t need to concern ourselves much with the former, unless its prevalence begins to impinge upon performance (which, in reality, occurs rarely). But beware the latter: therein can lie a proverbial fire within your (physical or virtual) office walls, which, if not addressed directly yet deftly, will likely have a negative impact on a firm’s performance soon.