workplace violence

This term refers to any personal assault or injury, including death, or damage to property perpetrated in the work environment or growing out of hostility originating at work.

Also: go postal

• Simon, Robert & Tardiff, Kenneth (editors) Textbook of Violence and Management 2008

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