March 15, 2005 |
Posted By Diane Pfadenhauer |
Spam Costs Companies Millions in Lost Productivity
According to a report by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, computer users spend an average of 3 minutes a day - or 22.9 million hours per week - deleting spam email. They claim this loss of productivity equates to a financial loss of $ 21.58 billion. They note that this figure does not include the wasted resources of transmitting and storing the unwanted email and purchasing and maintaining software to block spam. Perhaps the bean counters in our organizations can calculate the cost of savings of implementing more robust spam-blocking software in order to reduce the loss of productivity. Now if we could just keep our employees away from the water cooler, just think how much more productive they could be!