Thursday, September 8, 2011

Horrible Bosses: Workplace violence in the real world

Such a great article here from the CDC and NIOSH's Science blog about workplace violence.

Horrible bosses. If you've had one, hopefully they were not as bad as those portrayed by Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, and Colin Farrell in the newly released movie of the same name. While the plot and characters are exaggerated and the comic elements may not be to everyone's taste, the movie highlights the very real issues of work stress and violence. Each week in the United States, an average of 33,000 workers are assaulted on the job and 14 are murdered...
Read the NIOSH Stress at Work page here; check out more useful info at the CDC's NIOSH Science blog here.

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