Spam emails. Everyone hates them, and clearing spam from your inbox is a real productivity killer.
A recent report found that the average employee loses up to 80 hours each year thanks to filtering and deleting spam emails. That’s a LOT of lost productivity.
Between 45% and 85% of emails generated each day are spam emails. And worryingly, that includes malicious emails and those hoping to infect your network with malware.
Although we don’t all receive the same number of emails daily, the hours lost to filtering them out adds up:
To give you some idea, if one of your employees gets 30 external emails per day, they will get around 30 spam emails each week. That works out to around 5 hours each year wasted on sorting through and deleting them.
For an employee who gets up to 60 emails a day, this would be an average of 11 hours a year wasted.
And for someone receiving more than 100 emails each day, you’re looking at around 80 hours of productivity lost to filtering emails each year.
Now add that up for each member on your team, and you’re looking at a BIG number.
And the loss of productivity is not the only concern. Since a proportion of these emails will be phishing attempts (messages where the sender wants you to take an action that will secretly give them access to sensitive data), it’s also a significant security risk to your data security.
Of course, there are things you can do to cut down the time spent dealing with spam emails and reduce your risk. Your first option is to use the spam and junk email filters available from your email service, but you should really consider bringing in dedicated anti-spam and anti-phishing tools.
The next important step is to make your people aware of the risks of spam, how to spot spam emails, and the best way is to deal with it. Not only will implementing these strategies save time, but they will also significantly lower the risk of malware or a data breach.
Call us today and let us explain how easy it is to train your staff and secure all of your email communications.
