TAROBY: Official News & Blog » statistics http://blog.taroby.org Communicate - Collaborate - Connect Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:23:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The Email Numbers http://blog.taroby.org/the-email-numbers/2009/05/11/ http://blog.taroby.org/the-email-numbers/2009/05/11/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 02:35:18 +0000 toby http://blog.taroby.org/?p=49 The following numbers are based on the results from various reknown research institutes and analysts and quite interesting to read.

  • 80: The percentage of emails sent which are actually ’spam’ – unsolicited adverts, many of which are fraudulent or otherwise illegal.
  • 62: The percentage of workers who check business emails while at home or on holiday.
  • 10: The points fall in IQ experienced by workers distracted by email (more than twice that found in cannabis studies).
  • 3.5: The years a manager spends of his entire life attending to completely unecessary email.
  • 33: The annual energy consumption produced by spam (in billion kilowatt hours).
  • 0.3: The average CO2 emission for a spam email (in grams).
  • 868: The Internet’s globally estimated carbon footprint (in billion kilowatt hours).

As of April 2009.

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