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How To Write An Out of Office Message
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Give the reason for your absence (with discretion). You don’t owe anyone an explanation in your out of office message by any means, but when you give a small detail of why you’re away, that will determine whether the person trying to get in contact with you will call or text you. If you’re on a work trip and they know that – they’ll probably still contact you. If they know you’re on your family vacation – they’ll more than likely wait (or should anyway) until you return. “This way, the person contacting you doesn’t feel like they hit a dead end on the matter they’re emailing you about now that you’ve pointed them to a specific person.” Set an autoresponder. While this seems like a given, be sure to make sure your autoresponder is set correctly. I once took off one week from my blog, wrote an out of office message and no one ever saw it because my autoresponder wasn’t set correctly. Not my proudest moment, but a valuable lesson learned.