A new study on workplace violence finds that while the rate at which people are murdered on the job has gone down, the number of assaults has been trending higher.
The findings came in a research report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance in Boca Raton, Fla.
NCCI said that the major cause of homicide was robberies, accounting for roughly 75 percent of those murdered in the workplace.
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