Ten employees of French telecoms giant Orange have committed suicide since the beginning of the year, nearly as many as the whole of 2013, an organisation that monitors work conditions said Tuesday, reports GlobalPost.
Labelling it a "serious alert", the Observatory for Stress and Forced Mobility said the majority of these suicides were "explicitly related to work."
Orange is now the name for what used to be known as France Telecom, a huge telecommunications firm that was hit by a wave of suicides.
The wave was at its strongest between 2008 and 2009, when 35 employees took their lives, prompting then boss Didier Lombard to step down.
The deaths triggered questions about stress and management.
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