Employees Spend at Least an Hour a Day on Personal Email   - 1,758 Views,

In other words, nearly all workers spend at least a half an hour a day attending to personal email, while on company time, and some spend much more.

According to Clearswift, a British security firm, with offices in California as well, only ten percent of workers claimed to never deal with personal email at work.

Explained Clearswift CEO Dave Guyatt, “In a typical 100-person company in each of the three countries, for example, the survey shows that almost 1,700 working days each year are lost because people are using corporate e-mail systems for non-company purposes.”

1,700 working days being spent on employees’ personal email.

Sweet Thor’s beard!

As Guyatt points out, “That’s equivalent to about seven new full-time staff.”

Of course, it would be interesting to see how much time the average employee spends, while at home, working on work email, because of course the boundary between work and home are growing ever smaller and fuzzier.

Still, the numbers are rather staggering.

What do you think, dear readers? Is it ok to attend to your personal email while on company time? And if so, to what extent? How much is too much?

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