How important is email for your work situation?

(400 words minimum) (Cite References)
Chapter 4 talks about the important role that email has in business. An article published by CNBC in 2019 said, “When software company Adobe surveyed over 1,000 American workers for its annual email usage study, they found that people on average spend more than five hours per day checking their email” (Hess, 2019).
Respond to the following discussion suggestion:
How important is email for your work situation? How do you manage the emails that you receive and send each day? Is email the primary means of communication or are there other methods that you use more or as often? Has the pandemic affected your use of work-related emails?

Source: Hess, Abigail, J. (2019, September 22). Here’s how many hours American workers spend on emails each day. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/22/heres-how-many-hours-american-workers-spend-on-email-each-day.html