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An employee held at knifepoint in his home for three hours by his manager is entitled to compensation for a psychological injury, despite his employer's argument that the attack wasn't connected to work.

No action on the employee's part took him outside the scope of his employment; rather, "he complied with his manager's every request and direction, as bizarre and violent as they were", said NSW Personal Injury Commission Member Adam Halstead.

The employee began working for cyber security company NCC Group as a client engagement manager in 2021, reporting to the senior vice president of sales.

That same year, unrelated to their work, the pair invested in a cryptocurrency scheme. It performed poorly, and the manager became "increasingly concerned and agitated", making this known to the employee...