Site offers solutions for victims of workplace bullies

The Canadian Press FREDERICTON -- Although she has never personally experienced a toxic workplace, Marilyn Noble knows all too well that the average Canadian office can be hell. Noble, a veteran researcher of workplace bullying, says she braces for an onslaught from sad, troubled workers whenever she gives public talks about her findings. After she has finished speaking, she says, they come up to her -- the bullied, the stressed, even the suicidal -- looking for solutions to a problem the World Health Organization has described as an international epidemic: job stress caused by workplace bullying. "It's hard. The situation usually has deteriorated so far, really all you can do is give people coping strategies," says Noble, a researcher at the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research at the University of... [read full story]