Within the past two years, 25 France Télécom employees apparently chose suicide as a way to escape “the hell” of their company’s human resources management. One could ask: “Why are the media focusing now?” The direct relation between suicide and the pathogenic environment of a firm does not seem to be a new phenomenon: cases of work-related suicides were already reported by company doctors at the end of 90s. And the relevant literature reveals a lot of despairs in work from rural areas during the 19th century, mainly in the west part of France. Actually, if we accept the figures from France Télécom, there has not been an increase compared to previous years.
