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The hidden cost of email

Email is an essential business tool: it is fast, inexpensive and easy. However, it is a double-edged sword.

Email problems are all multiplied by the number of staff In your organisation.

Here's an example:

Say you have 1000 staff in your organisation and one of them emails everybody a short two page report.

• They think it will only take 30 seconds for each person to deal with this email
• But that's 1000 x 30 seconds
• Which is 500 minutes
• And that is over 8 hours

So one email has taken more than a working day out of the organisation.

And it only takes one person to hit <<Reply to all>> ...