Study claims British workers waste an hour a day on junk e-mails

Corporate IT Update, Dec 30, 2003

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New research from the University of Nottingham indicates that British workers spend up to an hour each day removing junk e-mails from their inboxes.

The study also revealed that personal messages sent between office workers have a negative effect upon work time, particularly at smaller companies.

The Institute for Enterprise and Innovation at the University of Nottingham stated that almost a fifth of the 174 business respondents in the survey claimed they were losing over an hour of working time a day due to high volumes of e-mail. The research forms part of the UK Business Barometer project which aims to provide information about small companies in the UK.

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