July 01, 2003

Report: Spam costs $874 per employee per year

Yearly productivity loss equals 1.4 percent

Rather than turning to the latest antispam technology, companies may get better results by turning to the courtroom and Capitol Hill for relief from the spam scourge.

Campbell said recent legal action against alleged spammers by Microsoft and others is potentially more effective than antispam technology and recommended that concerned businesses owners call their congressional representative.

"You're in a technology war with the spammers. Filtering will help, but there's nothing that helps more than a couple years in jail," he said.

Nucleus is hoping that the survey raises eyebrows in the business community, noting that for every 72 employees, companies are losing the productivity of one due to spam.

"If one of out of every 72 of your employees showed up to work and slept all day, you'd be upset about that, but you're losing that productivity simply because you have spam coming through," Campbell said.

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This is such a BS post. How many hours are lost to the employees surfing the internet instead of working? It's a lot more then this figure which is grossly inflated anyway.
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