A new report indicates that as many as forty-percent of all workers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany spend at least an hour a day on personal email, while at work. And most of the rest spend at least half an hour a day.

In other words, nearly all workers spend at least a half an hour a day attending to personal email, while on company time, and some spend much more.

According to Clearswift, a British security firm, with offices in California as well, only ten percent of workers claimed to never deal with personal email at work.

Explained Clearswift CEO Dave Guyatt, “In a typical 100-person company in each of the three countries, for example, the survey shows that almost 1,700 working days each year are lost… [Continued...]