Spam Cost Example:

Using a conservative approach, let's take a look at how much spam is estimated to cost a company of 100 people.

If we make the assumption that each person receives on average 10 spam emails per day and spends on average 15 seconds processing each email, then that means the company receives about 365,000 spam emails over the course of a year and that its employees spend about 1,520 hours processing these spam emails by either deleting them or responding to them. That's 1,520 hours of lost productivity.

To quantify this lost productivity, let's assume that the salary per person averages out to be $60,000. This translates to a productivity loss of over $43,804 in a year.

So, just looking at employee productivity, spam is costing this company of 100 employees over $43,804 a year. If you further calculate in technology expenses associated with spam, such as the amount of time wasted by the email servers in processing all the spam emails and the amount of time IT support staff spends battling spam, you'll find that the cost of spam only goes up.

The Cost of Spam:

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