Still below the national / global average. I see nothing newsworthy here, just a very sad story.
"French" company Orange, who has around 100K employees, got into national trouble for a "wave" of suicide that counted in the thenths. [1]
The company's french boss got terrible press by calling the series of event a "mode des suicide" (roughly translatable as "suicide fad" or "suicide fashion").
The events highlighted "structural" managerial problems at the company.
FB has around ~20k employees, so that might affect the "newsworthyness ratio".
It is obviously too early to know if the situation at Facebook is comparable to Orange.
I would not be surprised at all, if the narative of "Facebook badly treats is employed" gets popular. FB already has a rather bad rep.
Facebook top management had better handle this thoughfully - if only, by pure human decency.
[1]: https://theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/19/orange-france-i...
A company with 100K employees and over 20 suicides per year, is concerning.
For example, we're all calling this particular death a suicide but there's a chance that the San Mateo coroner / medical examiner rules this as something else.
The US has an average suicide rate of 13 per 100,000 per year, Facebook has 40,000 employees and right now a single suicide. They'd need at least 4 more to meet the average this year.
I'd like to know what this person actually did for work. The media tends to ambiguously use terms like "tech worker" without specifying whether they are technical or non-tech employees at tech companies.