Here are some examples of effective text for out of office messages you can use to keep your clients notified of your absence and unavailability during a holiday.
Happy Holidays is used only around Christmas in the USA. Traditionally, it was meant to include both Christmas and New Year's Day. We don't usually say "Happy Holiday" at other times, although there's nothing wrong with saying it.
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I have a couple people that I work with though who set them for outside their normal work hours, like they automatically kick on at 4:30pm and off at 8am or whatever, and then there’s the one special snowflake who sets her out of office not only when she leaves for the day every day, but also when she takes her half hour lunch or her fifteen minute break, Jesus wept.
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Oh my gosh, this is funny! It does sound kinda like, “some things are more important than work, JAN.”
Depends on the system. Our Outlook is set up so that if you’ve got someone with an OOO in the “To” field, a note shows up saying that they are sending automated messages, and you can see the message. Convenient, since then I can add the person covering their stuff to the email without sending a second email.
For comparison my current (not great) boss sent an out of office recently detailing how he would be out because he was on his personal sail boat all day, sailing from vacation destination X back to our port city. At length. In a pandemic. When we all had our wages frozen at the start of the crisis.
I am in London May 29th - June 4th, so email replies may be tardy due to the curvature of the earth and the sun… and you know… science and stuff.
I had to explain to her that the email was still there, just like a voicemail, they’d get it on their return.
My European colleagues get an extended summer holiday all at the same time, which means we get OOO notes like this:
I am currently on annual leave and I return to the office on Monday 21st September. I will reply to your email as soon as possible.
Hi! I will be out of the office this week. If you need immediate assistance while I’m away, please email (COLLEAGUE NAME).
12) The email server is unable to verify your server connection. Your message has not been delivered. Please restart your computer and try sending again.
The recipient may have filtering turned on that would reject the automatic reply;
Top of the iceberg though. Oh, and she also works with external contacts, including prospective clients.
For those of you arguing that entrepreneurs and salespeople must always be available, I present to you Exhibit A. While this is specific to Yesware (and you should check out their other OOO examples), it's easy enough to tweak to fit your industry.
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