Statistics
Victims of violent crime in the workplace lose an estimated 1.8 million workdays each year.
(National Criminal Victimization Survey
of U.S. Households, 1987 to 1992.)
Abusers made costly and dangerous mistakes on the job as a result of perpetrating domestic violence. Most abusers used company phones, e-mail and vehicles in order to perpetrate domestic abuse, and most used paid work time in order to attend court for matters relating to their perpetration of domestic violence.
(How Employees Who Batter Affect the Workplace,
Employers Against Domestic Violence, 2001)
Homicide is the leading cause of death of women on the job.
(Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor, National Census of
Fatal Occupational Injuries, 1995. USDL pub. No. 96-315, 1996.)
75% of battered employees are harassed at work by their abusers.
(July 1998, NCJ 168634)
In 1997 , there were 60,000 incidents of on-the-job violence where the victims knew their attackers intimately.
(July 1998, NCJ 168634)
Domestic violence greatly impacts workplace productivity. For every 100 victims, 94 will take at least one extra sick day a year, more than 60 will be late by more than an hour about five times a month and nearly 60 will be harassed at work on the phone by their abuser. All of this adds up to a situation where 70% of hurting, afraid, distracted and otherwise compromised victims will have difficulty performing their jobs.
(DVInitiative.com, 2002)
Each year, almost one million Americans are victims of violent crime while on the job.
(Ronet Bachman, Ph.D., July 1994, “Violence and Theft in the Workplace,”page 1, National Crime Victimization Survey, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)
Corporations lose as much as $5 billion a year to domestic violence incidents, and a vast majority of employees are harassed at work by their abusers.
(Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1993)
