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The preponderance of SPAM email is having a tremendous impact on businesses today. InfoWorld just reported that unsolicited commercial e-mail costs U.S. companies $874 per employee per year in lost productivity, according to a new report out from independent research company Nucleus Research. (Paul Roberts, IDG News Service, Boston Bureau, 7/2003)

The calculator below allows to you estimate the effect that SPAM is having on your business. This calculator only takes productivity into account (ie. the actual amount of lost wages paid to employees while dealing with SPAM messages). With that, the numbers generated are actually lower that the actual costs incurred by your company. The total cost would include the irritation factor, its effect on morale, administrative time, server utilization, storage consumption, and network bandwidth losses. All that to say... the numbers generated here are conservatively low, actual loss to the organization are measurably higher.

The bottom line is the on the bottom line.

	Enter the number of employees with email
	Enter the number of workdays per employee per year (note: 5 days per week x 52 weeks - 15 holidays = 245 workdays)
	Enter the average hourly salary per employee (i.e. $50K/yr = $25/hr)
1 5 10 20 30 50 75 100 150	Enter the average number of SPAM messages received per employee per day
1 2 3 4 5 10	Estimate the average number of seconds it takes an employee to process each spam message
	Results:
	Amount paid to employees to process SPAM messages per year
	Annual cost of Sterling SPAM filter
	Total dollars saved per year

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To capitalize on these savings, contact that Sterling sales staff at 503-885-8908 x227 or email us at sales@sterlink.net