Ultimately, there is no viable alternative to email.
Whilst work chats and office tools are abundant and effective, emails are efficient, they allow your clients and peers to contact you, they’re (ideally) less time consuming than a phone call and they leave a paper trail when you’re scrabbling for a document that you know was sent to you. However, whilst a clean and tidy inbox is achievable on a quiet day, for many, their inbox is a mess of useless marketing emails, spam and irrelevant information making finding important data that bit harder.