Here are some facts about email posted by TheEmailAdmin that you’ll find mind boggling: I selected a few of the bogglers here, or you can read the entire post here.
- There was an estimated 294 billion emails
sent every day in 2010 totaling over 90 trillion emails sent every year, or 2.8 million emails sent every second. - The average number of emails sent by a typical business user each day is 43. That same user receives an average of 130 emails each day.
- Of those 294 billion email messages sent every day it is estimated that 90% of them are spam or malicious.
- The average corporate employee spends 25 percent of their work day on email related tasks. This is compared to 14 percent spent on face to face meetings and 9 percent spent on the phone.
- The amount of spam is increasing at a rate of 20 to 25 percent every year.
- 74% of all adults online state that email is the preferred method of communication.
The average user spends about 1 hour and 47 minutes using email. - One third of all people aged 18 to 34 check their email when they first wake up.
- 62 percent of people admit that they regularly check work email over the weekend and 50 percent admit to checking work email while on vacation. 78 percent of this is done using mobile devices.
- Do you check your email over the weekend? How’s that workin’ for ya?
