The Nucleus figure is based on interviews with 117 employees at
76 different US companies, along with 28 IT administrators
responsible for managing e-mail and other corporate
applications.
Nucleus found that the average employee receives nearly 3,500
spam messages per year and says this causes an average loss in
productivity per year per employee at 1.4%.
The firm also reckons that one full-time IT staff person is
required for every 690 employees, just to manage spam and
spam-related issues.
Meanwhile, the UK Government's All Party Parliamentary Internet
Group hosted a Spam Summit to launch an investigation into
unsolicited commercial e-mail. The Group exists to provide a
discussion forum between new media industries and
parliamentarians.
According to Silicon.com, Stephen Timms, the Minister for
E-commerce and Competitiveness told those present that spam "isn't
a problem which will be solved by legislation alone."
TheRegister.co.uk quotes Timms adding, "Hopefully, it's possible
for us to come up with an EU-US approach and the All Party
Parliamentary Internet Group's inquiry will highlight ideas."
