Take a look out the window. Chances are if your offices are in a major American city, a group of Occupy Wall Street protestors are converging near the financial district. In Chicago, the protests taking place on LaSalle and Grant Park can range from 30 or so to the hundreds, with protestors ranging in age from high school and college kids to the elderly.

When the revolt began on September 17, most major media outlets ignored it. The initial take was that it was just a handful of professional protestors looking for a cause. Since then, the movement—although still without a leader or a message beyond protesting economic imbalance—has spread to more than two dozen cities and grown to include more than a dozen trade unions, celebrities and everyday people who aren't disenfranchised college kids. The movement has so far raised more than $300,000 and is expected to become a serious topic for discussion in the 2012 presidential election.

And although the protestors' demographic currently may skew toward Millennials, recent polls indicate Occupy Wall Street has the support of many fed-up Americans. A recent poll conducted by Quinnipiac University shows that two-thirds of New York City voters said they support the protests—81 percent of Democrats and 35 percent of Republicans. And if those results seem high because of New Yorkers' liberal bent, consider a Time magazine national poll, which indicates the Occupy movement has a 54 percent favorable rating compared with 27 percent for the Tea Party.