Unsolicited commercial email, or 'spam', has grown from being merely a nuisance to a significant factor affecting workplace productivity. The Spam Filter ROI Calculator can help determine the real cost of spam to your organization.

These totals represent only a single component of the overall cost of receiving spam. Other organizational effects include:

• Network resource drain, including Internet bandwidth, mail server processing cycles, and storage capacity
• Notential legal issues resulting from creating a 'hostile environment' especially when the contents are offensive to certain segments of employees
• Based on 220 paid work days yearly with a regular 8 hour work day