What is the true cost of spam to your business?

Employees spend more than a full working day per year managing spam.

If you have 10 employees on an average salary of $39,000/year or $150.00/day and each employee receives an average of fifty emails each day then 75% or 370 of those messages will be spam.

If each spam message takes 5 seconds to process then each employee will spend 13 hours or $259.00/year dealing with spam.

The cost of spam to the company in terms of productivity is

        10 x $259.00 = $2590.00/year.

On top of this you also have the cost of disk space, processor time and internet bandwidth to receive and process all this email that you don't actually want.

The real cost of spam is those valid emails lost in the swarm of spam messages, that are missed, and the business opportunities that are missed with them.