In addition to consuming bandwidth and slowing down e-mail systems, Spam is a frustrating time-waster, forcing employees to sift through and delete mounds of junk mail. What is the cost to an organization whose employees are forced to deal with Spam? It is difficult to pinpoint specifically as every organization is different. However, if your average employee receives only ten (10) junk mails per day, and it takes that employee a total of one (1) minute per day to manage those messages at a rate of $25/hour, it would cost that organization approximately $108/year in lost productivity. Extrapolated to an organization with 5,000 employees, these figures would represent a $1.08M loss of productivity.
IronMail (security appliance), and MailMarshal (software content filter), provide gateway control to prevent Spam from affecting your employees and e-mail systems.
Please use this calculator to get a better idea of the costs of unproductive use as well as an estimated Return on Investment time for purchasing the IronMail or MailMarshal solutions.
Additional areas of cost savings NOT taken into account are: