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While employees are the key elements for any organisational success, it has been observed employees practice disengaged behaviour of employees due to several factors. Of all the various reasons such as fear, lack of trust, hesitation, cultural norms, hesitation and many more, employees withhold information, suggestions, ideas, knowledge and prefer being silent which seems to be a burning issue at the workplace due to lack of communication; consequently, leads to occurring of employee silence. The current paper aims to assess the extant literature review on employee silence and its outcomes associated with different variables. Through the lens of systematic review, acquiescent silence, defensive silence` and pro-social silence were found to be the most universalistic dimensions. Silence leads to mostly negative outcomes such as reduction in organisational commitment, job satisfaction, employee innovative behaviour, job performance and so on. A platform of communication & redesigning of policies should be developed by the stakeholders to reduce the culture of silence which brings transparency among the organisational hierarchies. Also, the managers should be supportive rather than undermining.