The Cost of Internal Email Spam to Businesses
We’re all familiar with email spam — those unwanted email messages that fill our inboxes and waste our precious time. But did you know a significant chunk of that email spam is coming from inside our company , from our co-workers and even our bosses? In fact, internal spam can be even more insidious than external spam. For one thing, anti-spam software can’t detect them because they come from official email addresses. And we’re more likely to waste time opening and reading them, because, after all, our colleagues sent them! What Is Internal Email Spam? Let’s be honest. Some internal emails are obviously spam: chain letters, politics, jokes, even links to the latest viral Tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts, YouTube or TikTok videos. However, some emails that are work-related can end up being considered spam as well. Think of all the internal official emails you were copied in, but turned out to be useless to you. Or how about when one employee chooses to “reply to all” when the ...