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INTRO
Work related suicides is not a recent phenomenom. But since the end of 2006, suicides at work have become very mediatized.
Every year in France, about 360 employees committed suicide at work. So it represents 1 suicide per day.

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That is the highest rate among large European economies, but still well behind Japan.
French men are three times more likely than French women to kill themselves and the age group in which the most French men kill themselves is between 45 and 49.

Media attention to a recent wave of suicides at France Télécom. whose key brand is Orange. France Telecom is Europe's third largest mobile phone operator and biggest provider of broadband internet services. Indeed, 25 employees committed suicide in the past 20th months.

One 52-year-old employee from France Telecom who killed himself in July left a note that blamed "overwork" and "management by terror." "I am committing suicide because of my work at France Telecom...That's the only reason."

It has revealed a paradox at the heart of French society: even with robust labor protection, workers feel profoundly insecure.
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The work organisation has become increasingly complex and restrictive. Work rates and rhythms are faster, work is more repetitive and stress is growing. The numbers of occupational accidents and illnesses are also rising. However, since the introduction of the 35-hour working week in 2001, employees have greater scope for taking initiative.

III) Consequences

The consumption of antidepressant is higher than in comparable countries. They ended their lives with sleeping pills, hanged themselves or jumped out of the office windows.

In the face of rising unemployment, business closures and a massive wave of layoffs, the French government is concerned that the recurring suicides could be seen as