{"id":44292,"date":"2020-08-01T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/us\/en\/blog\/?p=44292"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:24:54","slug":"email-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/email-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"3 email alternatives\u2014that work better than email"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated October 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

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Email is so\u2026 old-school.<\/span><\/p>\n

But more than that, there\u2019s another important reason why more and more companies are moving away from using email as their default communication tool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, it\u2019s just plain unproductive.1<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

Get this: In 2017, 269 billion emails<\/span> were sent and received every day, with the average employee receiving about 122 emails a day.2<\/sup> Out of these emails, only 38%<\/span> were actually about something important.3<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the average employee spends 13 hours a week<\/em> reading and replying to emails. That\u2019s over a quarter of their workweek! And considering only 38% of those emails are worth opening, it\u2019s pretty easy to see the problem here.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this post, we\u2019ll go over three alternatives to email, when they\u2019re best used, and what makes them so much better if you want to have more efficient conversations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out:<\/span>
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