世論 What Japan Thinks

One of things my employer does manage to do right with my corporate mail box is keep it almost free from spam, with barely one per day getting past the filters, although I have no idea how many spams get caught, but I suspect it may be quite a few as my work email address can be found in postings on the internet. Sadly, a recent survey published by japan.internet.com and conducted by JR Tokai Express Research on the topic of workplace email does not report on how much of an issue spam is in the average workplace.

Demographics

On the 8th of June 2007 330 members of the JR Tokai Express Research online monitor group who worked in private industry completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 73.0% of the sample was male, 13.3% in their twenties, 45.5% in their thirties, 27.3% in their forties, 8.5% in their fifties, and 5.5% in their sixties.

Daily mail volume at work is probably close to 70 or so, including corporate internal semi-spam. However, … ahh, I must apply some self-censorship here, so just read the results, please.

Research results

Of the original 330 people in the sample, 268 used PC or Mac-based email at work. They were asked the following questions.

Q1: Including spam, about how many emails do you receive at work each day? (Sample size=268)

Up to 10	31.0%
11 to 30	30.6%
31 to 50	20.1%
51 to 100	10.1%
101 to 300	7.1%
301 to 1,000	0.7%
Over 1,000	0.4%

Q2: About how long each day do you spend on email at work? (Sample size=268)

Less than thirty minutes	38.1%
Thirty minutes to one hour	29.1%
One to two hours	24.3%
More than two hours	8.6%

Q3: About how many times per day do you check for new email at work? (Sample size=268)

Don’t check every day	6.0%
Once	4.5%
Two to five times	28.0%
Six to ten times	19.8%
Eleven or more times	41.8%