The National Crime Prevention Council has a program on Cyberbullying. Why is this relevant to businesses and organizations? Where do you think bullies learn to be bullies?  First the playground and then they graduate as teens to cyberbullying and that is one step away from workplace bullying.

In today’s Diversity Executive, Deanna Hartley reports that an estimated 54 million individuals in the United States — or 37 percent of American workers — have been bullied in the workplace at some point in their lives, according to research by the Workplace Bullying Institute.  The article’s title suggests that the costs to employees would be clear but there are not statistics.  However, I checked directly with the Institute and the numbers are clear.

The link between bullying (mobbing) to PTSD  is very clear.  And According to the 2007 WBI-Zogby Survey, 45% of targeted individuals suffer stress-related health problems.

We can no longer tolerate bullying in our schools, our homes or our workplaces.

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