The U.S. economy loses $ 650 billion by e-mail

Lost time that employees of American companies are spending, in response to unwanted e-mail, or distracted by phone calls, which makes the sender to confirm receipt of e-mail, cost the U.S. economy in 2006 to 650 billion dollars. Reported AP referring to research company Basex.

In 2008 one of the main threats to the U.S. economy will be ' information overload ', which forces employees to filter out a lot of unwanted messages. According to Basex, workers need 10-20 times greater than the time spent by them during the break, the fact that once again turn to the workflow.

Analysts are advised not to call Basex respondents immediately after the letter was sent, but instead try to make the headers more informative. In addition, it is not recommended to send their letters to the entire list of contacts.