As part of ongoing research into the working habits of employees and businesses across Britain, the UK’s biggest online cartridge retailer has conducted a study of 2,021 people in full-time employment, with an aim to discover how many personal emails are sent each year from work email accounts.
The study, conducted by www.Cartridgesave.co.uk, polled employees working in businesses with a minimum of 50 members of staff. The poll initially asked the respondents if they send personal emails whilst at work from their professional email account, to which the majority, 81%, said ‘yes’. A further 39% of the respondents stated that they also sent personal emails whilst at work from their ‘personal email account.’
With an aim to investigate the matter further, the 81% of respondents who cited that they sent personal emails from their work email address were asked to state how many personal emails approximately they sent each working day. According to the research, the average amount of personal emails sent each day was '9.'
In a bid to discover how many personal emails are sent each year by employees in offices around the UK. Cartridgesave.co.uk multiplied 9 by 230 (the average amount of working days each year, once weekends, bank holidays and minimum entitled holiday is deducted). According to the research and the previously mentioned equation, 2,070 personal emails, on average, are sent by each employee in a working year.
To emphasise the time employees are spending on sending personal emails from business addresses whilst at work, Cartridgesave.co.uk has worked out that if these emails were to be printed, including signatures, time, date and subject information at the head and base of each email, with each email containing a minimum of two paragraphs in size 11 font; each individual email would need one full page of A4 paper in order to be printed.
According to this equation, each employee’s personal emails sent from their business account per year would need 2,070 sheets of paper if they were to be printed.
As the respondents polled worked for companies that employed a minimum of 50 staff, Cartridgesave.co.uk multiplied 2,070 by 50 in a bid to investigate how many sheets of paper businesses across the UK would need if they were to print each personal email sent by its employees from business accounts each year.
According to the results, businesses across the UK would need 103,500 sheets of paper if they were to print every personal email sent via the work email account from each member of a staff per calendar year.
Ian Cowley, Managing Director of Cartridgesave.co.uk, said the following about the findings:
“It was really interesting conducting this research and finding out just how much paper would be used if personal emails sent from work were to be printed. As an online cartridge retailer we really like to bring home the effect needless printing has on a business. Although these emails aren’t necessarily printed, it still emphasises the amount of money printing costs if it is done carelessly.”
He continued,
“Writing personal emails during working hours may be frowned upon in some businesses, particularly if they're from professional account. However, if the emails are sent during breaks and from personal accounts it could prove to be less of a problem; particularly if people aren't wasting company paper printing them out”
Personal Emails Sent From Work Equate to Almost 103,000 Sheets of Paper a Year
New research from the UK’s biggest online cartridge retailer has revealed that staff send an average of 9 personal emails each working day, from their work email address. In a bid to emphasise the time spent on sending personal emails at work, Cartridgesave.co.uk has worked out how many sheets of paper would be needed if these emails were to be printed
