Stop Spam, Increase Productivity
September 13, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Spam is a lot like the mosquito. No one really knows a good reason why it exists…
If there were no spam, we would never know about increasing the size of parts of our anatomy, or how to make millions working from home in our spare time, or that our bank accounts at a bank we actually have no accounts has been compromised. Obviously, someone is making money from it because they keep sending more and more of it.
Spam actually comprises 80% or more of your email traffic. Let’s state that another way. Let’s say that your physical mailbox at home is like your email Inbox at work. If you went home and had 100 letters in your mailbox, 80 of them would be spam. You would have to sort through 100 pieces of mail just to find the 20 that you were actually expecting. The reason you don’t see this is because the US Postal Service charges a fee for every piece of mail that they deliver.
Now email is a different matter altogether. While there is a fee to send out spam, it is so neglible that spammers are easily able to send millions of messages for very little money. And while most of us frown and delete the messages, obviously someone out there is clicking on these messages and making money for the spammers. So, what can you do about it?
First, you can educate your users to ignore the spam and just delete it. This will work but it will also take time out of their day. If your users spend an hour a day working in email, that means they will be spending 48 minutes a day taking care of spam. Multiply that out to 200 work days a year and that means that your employee will spend four weeks a year deleting spam. Yes, four weeks! And you are paying for this lost productivity.
Second, you could sign up for a service that would remove the spam before it reaches your employees Inbox. Based on the earlier numbers, this means that you will save your employees four weeks a year in lost productivity.
What could you do with an extra four weeks of work from your employees each year?