The Email Numbers
Monday, May 11th, 2009The 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.
