The time taken dealing with spam email means small businesses in the UK say goodbye to an average £2,000 a year in lost productivity costs, new research reveals.
Employees wastes two days of their working year filtering through illicit emails, the report by ClearMyMail claimed, with downloading, checking and deleting worthless messages taking six seconds each.
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