Spam Costs U.S. Companies $22B Annually

KoReE writes "According to this CNN article, a study at the University of Maryland says the loss of productivity from spam is costing U.S. companies $22 billion per year." Of course, they also say people get 18.5 spam per day, and I'm tipping in at 20x that.

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Re:Does that include the cost of studies about spa

[hackstraw]

Since I read about a new spam study every other day, I'm wondering if that $22B price tag includes the cost of all the studies being done about the cost of spam?

All of these "annual amount of money lost due to X" studies are bullshit.

This is saying that $22B a year is "lost" due to people spending an average of 2.8 minutes a day deleting emails.

Well, how much paper has email saved over the years? How much time has email saved? How much does taking a dump cost businesses annually? What about reading /.?

I've been hearing these "take a miniscule amount of thing X and multiply it by the number of people Y and report REALLY BIG NUMBER Z" studies all my life.

Who cares?

Lets do a more interesting and relevant study for people for a change. How many hundreds of millions of dollars would be saved if we switched to a 4 day workweek? How about the quality of life for everyone having at least 3 day weekends every week? That sounds interesting.