The study is published on the Blackberry website (here) so should probably be taken with a grain of salt for obvious reasons, however I find it’s results quite interesting.

The report suggests that “typical (median) end user converts 60 minutes of downtime into productive time per day” – That is one hour per day that the average user would be being paid for where they are not not productive into productive time – And the survey states they have taken a conservative approach.

For a person on a $40,000 salary, this equates to $5,000 per year of recovered productivity!

There are issues that the analysis does not cover, such as the social impacts of a constant connection to work, but from a business point of view the numbers sure do seem to stack up.

The survey puts the TCO at about $1,325 PA, so if the number are correct, that is a huge benifit to business.

I don’t use a Blackberry myself, any out of office email I do for work is done on a Laptop over a VPN connection. For those of you who DO use one, do you agree with the finding above?