(Note: While this blog is primarily concerned with bullying and cyberbulling at the K-12 level, this article reminds us that school bullies grow up and become workplace bullies. – Mike)
By ALLAN HALL
AN EPIDEMIC of workplace bullying is sweeping through Germany, with as many as 1.5 million people a day affected and the economy haemorrhaging money.
Known in German as “mobbing”, the harassment in offices, call centres, factories, warehouses, police stations, doctors’ surgeries and hospitals has reached such a level that workplace bullying has been linked to numerous suicides.
The employment ministry says the problem is more acute than in other countries.