By Steve Adams, The Patriot Ledger
Economic woes have recently raised the threat levels of deadly workplace violence despite employers’ efforts to adopt early warning systems. Workplace killings have declined in recent years, according to federal government data, and many large companies have adopted extensive programs to identify employee threats. But recent high-profile incidents underscore the [...]

By Tammy Joyner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
While last week’s deadly shooting at a Kennesaw truck rental facility puts a public face on workplace violence, security and crisis management experts say there are many more workplace problems that fly under the radar.
They’re continually being called on to handle toxic boss-employee relationships, overwhelmed workers, verbal threats, violent outbursts [...]

By Mark Guarino, csmonitor.com
The shooting at ABB Group in St. Louis Thursday that ended with four people dead, including the shooter, raises the prospect that the recession could be a strong contributor to workplace violence.
The Associated Press reports that the shooter, Timothy Hendron, was among several plant employees suing the company and its trustee, Fidelity [...]

By Matt Snyders, CityPages.com
“Goddamn it!” says the founder and CEO of Avalon Security. He emerges from his office in Brooklyn Park wearing black pinstriped pants, matching vest, and an improbably broad grin. “I thought those guys would never hang up!”
Dan Seman is a busy man these days. Since 1982, he and his 30-plus employees have [...]

By Sarah Boesveld, The Globe and Mail
A recent “minor” workplace tiff in a Toronto sushi restaurant left one employee dead. Clashes in a Yale University laboratory led to the murder of a young graduate student in September, her body stuffed in a basement utility space.
These are extreme cases, but they cast a grim light [...]

By Vivek Naik, TMCnet.com
Workplace stress, one recent report said, is a $ 300 billion profit killer across all industries such as IT, telecommunications, service providers, financial segments and satellite manufacturers.
The report said that in 1992, the United Nations called stress the “20th century epidemic,” and four years later, a survey by the World Health Organization [...]

by Jennifer Ryan, 9news.com
People who study workplace violence say they are finding growing evidence that economic frustration is starting to show itself in some offices. They worry some of that frustration may lead to violent outbursts.
“For people who are struggling, the pressures of a job or layoff may be the tipping point that could [...]

By Andrew C. Schneider, Fox28.com
Some employers are seeing a nasty side effect of recession: violence. Current and laid-off workers are increasingly turning their anger against their bosses.
In recent weeks, France has witnessed a rash of “bossnappings.” When 3M, Caterpillar, Sony and Michelin plants there announced layoffs, workers took managers hostage to protest severance terms. [...]

By Anna Winningham, Ventura County Star
The expert consultant was training a group of employees about how to recognize the signs of someone who could commit violence in the workplace: sudden changes in behavior, unprovoked anger, cleaning out a desk or wearing military fatigues to work.
At a break, the human resources person pulled the expert aside. [...]