BlackBerry Increase Suicide Case

Gervais Pellissier, Chief Financial Officer of France Telecom, the largest telecommunications operator in France mentioned, smartphones like the BlackBerry is responsible for the increasing number of suicide cases. Email raids came like a flood of users, ranging from mobile phones and their PCs to raise stress levels of employees.

“When you become employees of large companies in the past 15 years, you do not have a phone or a PC at home. When you arrive at the residence, the work is completed,” Pellisier said, as our quoted from Thenextweb, 28 September 2009. “Today, people who work at any level, whether the Chief Executive Officer until the staff level employees, they are always connected to the internet and email,” he said.

Now employees at some companies provided facilities to facilitate their BlackBerry email reading, and it is not surprising when it is also easier for them to get the pressure or stress. By email delivered directly to the user for 24 hours non-stop every day of the week, often up the pressure that they must give priority to the message, reply to important emails every day, both day and night. BlackBerry users who rarely hung up in order to avoid important emails.

The problem, France Telecom, the operator with the Orange brand has become the spotlight. Section 22 of their employees to commit suicide and another 13 attempted suicide did last year. In France, the company which owned 27 percent of the government employs 100 thousand employees.

Although France Telecom argues that the suicide rate their company’s employees are not higher than the national average, which reached 16 deaths per 100 thousand people in the year 2006, but still this is a remarkable event.

Local trade union has asked parliament to investigate this death. According to him, employee stress levels associated with major restructuring that occurred in the company involving the forcible removal of targets and implementation of new corporate profits.

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