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However you might feel about the topic, 24 work-related suicides at a single company in just two years is staggering. Do any US companies have statistics like t

• niels_olson 17y ago
  I'm an intern in a navy hospital. The most common, daily, reason for psychiatric admission of an active duty member (we see all services) is suicidal ideation or attempt. I'm not counting the malingerers. I'm counting people who have been through multiple psych interviews and psychiatrists who see suicide day in and day out agree this patient merits 24-hour observation. That's one hospital. There are dozens of military hospitals. I wouldn't be surprised if the US military has 24 new suicidal admits a day.
• Xixi 17y ago
  France Telecom has 187,331 employees (wikipedia). It might be "a single company", but it's 9 times bigger than Google... Even if you restrict it to France (where I think these suicides occured), that's still roughly 100,000 employees, so 5 times Google. Of course it's sad and France Telecom should definitely improve the situation. Not a single employee should commit suicide because of work. But it's not staggering. France suicide rate is somewhere around 17 or 18 in 100,000.