The Cost of Spam
Have you ever wondered what the actual cost of spam is, to your
organization?
Spam accounts for 45% of all e-mails, or 15 billion messages every
day, and costs business world-wide a total of $20 billion a year in
lost productivity and technology expenses, according to the Radicati
Group, a market research firm in Palo Alto, CA. The firm predicts
the number of daily Spams will rise to more than 50 billion by 2007,
and costs will reach almost $200 billion per year.
Wall Street Journal, August 2003
Use our Spam Cost Calculator below, to estimate the
cost of spam to your organization.
There is no doubt that
spam is growing at an alarming rate in both personal and corporate
inboxes. According to the Radicati Group, spam accounts for 45% of all
emails and that number is expected to continue increasing. That's just
simply astounding and unacceptable.
How is spam affecting your company? How much is spam
costing your company? Find out with our spam cost calculator. Using a
conservative approach, let's take a look at how much spam is estimated
to cost a company of 1000 people.
If we make the assumption that each person receives on
average 20 spam emails per day and spends on average 15 seconds
processing each email, then that means the company receives about 7.3
million spam emails over the course of a year and that its employees
spend about 30,500 hours processing these spam emails by either deleting
them or responding to them. That's 30,500 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 $877,400 in a year.
So, just looking at employee productivity, spam is
costing this company of 1000 employees over $877,400 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.
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Barracuda Spam Firewall helps you dramatically reduce the amount of
spam your company receives and subsequently, reduce your costs
associated with spam. Most customers see a return on their investment in
just a matter of days. Learn more about the Barracuda Spam Firewall.
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