The Washington Post (1/9, Wan) reports that an increasing number of Americans are committing suicide in the workplace, according to statistics released “last month by the Bureau of Labor of Statistics on occupational fatalities.” The number of workplace “suicides for 2018 was 304 – an 11 percent increase from the year before and the highest number since the bureau began tracking the data 26 years ago.” The figures on workplace suicides “reflect the larger crisis in society.” In fact, “since 1999, America’s suicide rate has steadily increased, climbing 33 percent in the past two decades.”
Related Links:
— “More Americans are killing themselves at work, “William Wan, The Washington Post, January 9, 2020