place homicides. The third category is employee violence, which is characterized by violence committed upon other employees by a permanent, part-time, temporary, or sub-contracted employee. This category accounts for 10% of all workplace homicides.
             Although deadly acts certainly pose a threat to the American workforce as statistics indicate, the disgruntled worker accounts for a small percentage of actual deaths. A large majority of workplace homicides do not involve murderous assaults between coworkers within an organization; rather, they occur in connection with robberies and other crimes. These external factors account for a large majority of violence in the workforce. These types of robberies account for approximately 1,000 deaths each year from violence in the workplace.
             Another external culprit of workplace violence is domestic violence, which can negatively affect work performance resulting in frequent violent outbursts, affecting the workforce. Domestic or spousal assault at work is commonly seen in the workplace today. The workplace is a common target for stalking, because it is one location where the victim can usually be found. This allows for easy access for a stalker to prey on their victim, because while victims can change phone numbers and move many can't switch jobs to avoid their stalker.
             Although internal factors account for a much smaller number of workplace disturbances these factors still pose large threats to the workplace. By and large, the single biggest internal factor of workplace violence by its employees is termination. An employee who feels that they have lost control will sometimes seek to regain that control with some form of workplace violence. As a result many companies now offer placement assistance programs to their employees to help reduce stress and to minimize the risks of workplace violence. Other factors that may perpetuate workforce violence include: evaluations, lack of promo...