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> Either way, this number of suicides in a single company in an absolute sense is bad regardless, whatever the relationship to other companies or regions.

Hmm, I'm not sure I follow the logic. Clearly any suicide rate is bad; and things should be done to combat it. But the fact is they employ 480,000 people and, so, you are going to see a larger number of suicides compared to someone who employs 48,000!

> you probably should compare it with the other factories in the same town to get a baseline.

Absolutely; can't find any information though. Which sucks.



The logic is that it is 25 work related suicides per that number of employees, I'm assuming that it is not exactly the total number of suicides for the whole company, just the ones that are directly related to the work conditions.

If someone jumps off a bridge because they got dumped by their significant other I highly doubt it would be tallied amongst these.


> just the ones that are directly related to the work conditions.

Yeh, I now see what you mean. As I said lower down - previous articles have explicitly said this is an overall figure.


This one in particular stands out as one that may be pretty directly related to the workplace:

http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-mobile-wireless/unbea...

It refers to suicide after 'unbearable interrogation techniques'.




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