The cause of the French telecom's suicide: Staff experiencing leadership harassment

From 2008 to 2009, 35 employees of France Telecom committed suicide. In the first three months of this year, another 11 people committed suicide.　　What's wrong with France Telecom? This month 9th, the Paris district attorney's office said it would intervene to investigate the case of the French telecoms company employee suicides.　　They received allegations that the leadership's "mental harassment" was the main cause of the "suicide boom" among employees of the company. From 2008 to 2009, 35 employees of France Telecom committed suicide, and in the first three months of this year, there were as many as 11 suicides. Although the original CEO resigned, Management has also changed, but "big change" after France Telecom seems to remain gloomy. Who is responsible for the lost life?　　What is the dilemma that France Telecom is facing? 3 months of gloom, 11 suicides. I'm sick of it.　　When they said I was worthless, I decided to do it. Jonel Devin, a French telecoms employee who tried to commit suicide, September 14, 2009, France Telecom is located in the eastern city of Metz customer service, a female manager to eat strong sleeping pills, after a coma in the office.　　She was immediately admitted to the hospital for first aid, and finally her life was saved. Pierre Dubois, a member of the French Workers ' Democratic Federation, said the woman's manager, who had failed to commit suicide, was 53 years old.　　Before taking the medicine, she will arrange to work in another city, which will be the third time she changes her work place this year.　　The same year, October 9, a conference in France Telecom, 49-year-old technician Jonel Devin suddenly stabbed his stomach with a knife. "I'm fed up!" When they said I was worthless, I decided to do it, "Devon said," The night before my manager called from the office to tell me that I no longer had the skills required to do this job and that I had to make a change.　　"Over two years in a row, France Telecom's suicide wave has shocked the world." From 2008 to 2009, a total of 35 employees committed suicide and 13 attempted suicide.　　From the beginning of 2010, in just 3 months, another 11 employees committed suicide.　　Some of these suicides will hang themselves alive, some directly out of the office window, and some resolutely jumped into the river from Takahashi, even in the eyes of the open laparotomy. France Telecom is Europe's third largest telecoms company, is one of France's once state-owned large companies.　　Once upon a time, the company was seen by the French as a "quiet and comfortable place to work", and it was the most coveted thing for many French.　　In a few short years, why did France Telecom, like the "Magic curse" of suicide in the shadow of the cloud?　　Sud PTT, the main trade union worker in France's telecoms industry, blamed the restructuring of the former state-owned enterprise: From 2006 to 2008, France Telecom sacked 22,000 employees for internal restructuring.　　To this end, Sud PTT filed a lawsuit with the French prosecutor's office in December 2009, accusing the company's management of "mental harassment" of its employees. Traced The problem is that the layoffs have sparked a deliberate agitation by the company of frustration to get employees out of the company. -Union lawyer Jean Paul Dessonnieres against the union, the Paris district attorney said 9th this month, they have begun a preliminary criminal investigation of the French telecom management.　　This means that the investigation of France Telecom is gradually expanding. In early 2010, the French Ministry of Labour launched a survey on the working environment of French telecommunications. The survey criticized the way French telecom treats its employees, saying the company's 3-year layoff of 22,000 people is "tantamount to harassment."　　"Some of the company's management tools ——— such as forcing employees to shift or to demote for no reason, are directly linked to frustration and suicidal attempts by employees.　　In March this year, prosecutors in the eastern French city of Besancon announced that the Labor Department's investigation found that a French telecoms employee's suicide was linked to a bad working environment, and that they would investigate the independent suicide case and determine whether the company's management had unwittingly become a "murderer".　　The employee committed suicide in August 2009 and wrote in his last words that France Telecom was "the root cause of his unhappiness" because, after three years of online work, he was transferred to another department to do customer service.　　Sud PTT believes that the large-scale "suicide wave" by French telecom employees is caused by the restructuring and restructuring of the company. France Telecom was privatized in 1998.　　Before that, 65% of employees, as a state-owned enterprise, signed up for civil service contracts, a part of whom could not be forced to dismiss. After privatization, under the intense competition pressure after the system reform, France Telecom has not ceased to the internal reorganization. The company has taken various forms for the placement of redundant employees, such as promising incentives to encourage some employees to leave and rearrange their positions, for example, by letting engineering people do telemarketing.　　France's telecoms unions estimate that more than half of the 100,000 employees in the past 5 years have experienced job transfers within the company or have been transferred to other cities.　　Still, the company announced in 2004 that it would cut 22,000 jobs over the next 3 years, equivalent to one-fifth of all employees at the time.　　"At one point, the company deliberately incited frustration to get employees to leave the company, and the problem was that it was too successful," said Jean Paul Dessonnieres, a Sud PTT lawyer. Under such great pressure, the employees ' eyes of France Telecom is no longer a "quiet and comfortable workplace." "To prevent the tragedy of the end of the story." I'm trying to turn the company into a less stressful place to work. Unfortunately, I am not a magician and have no ability to prevent personal tragedies. ——— France Telecom's new CEO Stefana Richard "People can't take a company's policy as a mental disturbance, and we believe that every suicide has a specific situation." "French telecoms lawyer Claudia Semalina believes that France Telecom should not be the employee fromKill the tide responsible.　　But in the face of continuous suicide and strong public pressure, France Telecom has been shelved the original restructuring plan since last year, the company's CEO Didiere Lombard in March this year to hand over the reins. As soon as the new CEO Stefana Richard, he unveiled a new policy aimed at improving human resources management and simplifying management structures.　　He announced that France Telecom would also reconsider its decision to close some of its offices, introduce more flexible ways of working and postpone part of the restructuring plan.　　Richard said the company will work to improve the relationship between management and trade unions and win the trust of employees. It is thought that older employees are the easiest to feel pressured by the company's frequent restructuring. To this end, France Telecom decided to allocate at least 1 billion euros to reduce the work pressure of senior staff.　　Employees aged 57 and above are allowed to work for a short period of time, but receive a full salary.　　The measures to win the trust of employees include deferring all staff transfers to next year. "I'm trying to implement a long-term strategy to turn the company into a more attractive, less stressful workplace," says Richard. "But will all these measures curb the labor pains that the industry's giants are bringing to the workforce in the system?" In an interview with the Financial Times, Richard still dared not confront the problem, admitting that more suicides might be possible. "Unfortunately, I am not a magician and have no ability to prevent personal tragedies." "(Shiying)