Open. Delete. Open. Delete. Open. Delete. It doesn’t seem as if it
takes up too much of your time, does it? Yet managing spam email
predominantly sent from the US costs small to medium businesses in the
UK over £4.5 billion in productivity costs according to recently
conducted research by a leading anti-spam company.
Spam email is costing the average Small to Medium business nearly £2000
each year according to new research by a leading UK based anti-spam
company, ClearMyMail, with the vast majority of it coming from America.
On average each employee wastes two days of their working year
filtering through and deleting illicit and often obscene emails, with
it taking on average 6 seconds to download, check and delete each
email.
The UK based anti-spam software service has found that for an average
small business managing 10 different email accounts, 160 hours of
working time each year are devoted to the tedious task of ensuring spam
ends up in the trash.
More than 2.5 million small businesses in the UK now use email as their
main communicative medium. James Coakes of Progressive Resources Ltd
claims that spam email has cost his and his employees valuable time and
effort.
“These statistics come as no shock. My employees and I have been
battling the menace of spam for years now, constantly bombarded with
often lude and definitely unwelcome promises and messages, from senders
claiming to have a personal knowledge of me.”
He continued, “They were, and are a nuisance. I have since started
using an anti-spam product, which has allowed my employees to
concentrate on their work rather than what somebody is attempting to
sell them.”
Dan Field, MD of www.ClearMyMail.com has some advice for those looking to cut down on time spent dealing with these unsolicited messages:
“As the Internet and email has evolved, so has spam, which is often
advertisement in the most intrusive way. Securing your companies
servers means that there are fewer servers that spammers can illegally
use to convey their messages. However, the problem of unwanted email
will remain until enough of the population, including those who use
their computers for personal use install anti-spam software.
He continued, “This way, spammers will have such a small pool of
potential targets that they may have to resort to more mainstream
methods of advertising.”
You can read the full press report at:
www.ClearMyMail.com/press/stealth_american_spam_tax.aspx
Calculate how much spam is costing you in lost time at:
www.ClearMyMail.com/SpamCost
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