eBay posted their financial report for the last quarter of 2009, this week, and opened the statement by blaming Skype for causing a 3% drag on gross revenue growth.
The leader paragraph states that comparing Q4 2008 to 2009, revenues rose 16% inclusive of the Skype ownership period, but that factoring Skype out of the numbers [...]

According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception of IP based services held on 25th June, high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on Skype conversations.

This has been confirmed to heise online by a number of the parties present at the meeting. Skype declined to give a detailed response to specific enquiries from heise online as to whether Skype contains a back door and whether specific clients allowing access to a system or a specific key for decrypting data streams exist. The response from the eBay subsidiary’s press spokesman was brief, “Skype does not comment on media speculation. Skype has no further comment at this time.” There have been rumours of the existence of a special listening device which Skype is reported to offer for sale to interested states.

Any experience small business entrepreneur will be able to explain the cost-creepage associated with a telephone on every desk.
It’s not just about employees making personal calls, it’s also about the uneccesary inter-desk calls that become protracted and due to the loss of face-to-face interaction, can lead to misunderstandings and reduced co-operation.
PBX-type internal telephone systems are [...]