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CIOLaw Editor Gregg MayerGregg Mayer is a journalist and lawyer with a keen interest in the rapidly evolving world of e-Discovery. Gregg has published numerous articles, including writing for law journals and the American Bar Association. Gregg served as editor-in-chief of the Mississippi Law Journal. Before practicing law, Gregg worked as a newspaper reporter for six years.

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Costs of Email

Posted by Gregg Mayer on Thursday, March 13th, 2008   

Here’s a great article from the BBC that poses one of the great philosophical questions of our time: is email ruining your life?

A recent study found one-third of office workers suffer from e-mail stress.
And it is expensive, too. One FTSE firm estimated that dealing with pointless e-mails cost it £39m a year.

I know next to nothing about currency exchange rates, but my quick Internet-assisted calculation reports that £39m would be about $77 million. Ouch. Not to mention the 52 hours a year we waste on junk email.  Read the rest of the article here

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