Suicide Essay

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According to the Oxford Dictionary, suicide is the action of killing oneself intentionally. Causes of suicide can be out of despair. This can be a consequence of several stress factors such as financial difficulties, personal troubles...etc. Work suicide can be caused by the recession; this destroys a very large number of jobs, especially in the telecoms companies because they have a technological revolution. It can also be caused by bad working conditions and frequent unannounced changes in the work environment. Companies need to improve their productivity, which means that employees have to work harder and longer, this can also lead to being “stressed out”. Evolution of suicide related to work Although work suicide is something that has been present for a very long time, there is no accurate data about all the events that involve work suicide through the years. Between the most heard cases of this type, are the massive suicides that were seen in the employees of the French company France Telecom. Between 2008 and 2009, thirty five of their employees ended their lives. At this point the organization was considered a worldwide alert regarding this kind of situations. Since then, the working climate, and working conditions have become key aspects that should be considered by organizations, not only because it affects the productivity, but also because it could end with the lives of employees. Previously, there were news that in Japan work suicide was common, but there had been no special attention to this. Each time, the pressure to get a job and fulfil their families is bigger, which makes really important to provide employees good working conditions and try not to cause them such a bad working conditions that they think taking ... ... middle of paper ... ...he main objectives of Orange is to continue growing and expanding so they have developed a strategy they called sustainable growth policy. This strategy includes expanding its activities to the sale of content like music, movies, downloads and different kinds of interaction. Also includes new features as e-commerce, online advertising, home automation and “telecare” to patients. Another important strategy consists in strongly developing the geographical reach of its activities, by investing heavily in emerging places of the country that are the cradle of a new network of huge possibilities of investment. Finally, they have developed a strategy based in marketing and it concerns access to services from the fixed telephone, mobile, internet, single billing and more services that allowed the customer to make an easier use of all the advantages that Orange can provide.

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