Do stressful working conditions cause psychiatric disorders?
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Do stressful working conditions cause psychiatric disorders?
EDITORIAL Do stressful working conditions cause psychiatric disorders? Twenty-five employees of France Telecom, a European telecommunications giant, have committed suicide within less than a 2-year period. The company's trades unions claimed that the number of suicides was a result of stressful working conditions. These events alerted the media globally—but doubts have been raised about whether...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqp183