How does spam affect workplace productivity?
Following is an example of the potential impact of spam on workplace productivity and lost salaries. Workplace Environment: Number of employees with email: 15,000 Number of workdays per year per employee: 230 Average hourly salary per employee: 25 Average number of spam emails per day per employee: 10 Number of seconds wasted with each spam email message: 5 Lost Salary: Total corporate yearly: $ 1,197,916.67 Total corporate daily: $ 5208.33 Total employee yearly: $ 79.86 Total employee daily: $ 0.35 Lost Productivity: Total corporate yearly: 5972.99 days Per employee yearly: 3.19 hours These totals represent only a single component of the overall cost of receiving spam.
