I love this! I don’t think its annoying at all– its literally sharing the mission of your work.
Our office will be closed today for the [holiday name]. We will reopen tomorrow morning at [time].
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I followed all the steps listed and can’t make this work for my iPhone 6s. Any suggestions?
This information will help the person reaching out to you gauge whether their message can wait for your response or if they need to contact someone else instead.
If there is an emergency, please email [email protected] and someone will contact you as soon as possible.
A. You can set up a Gmail Christmas signature easily with our email signature maker. First, sign up. Then, customize your signature: Choose a template, enter your details and select your color scheme. When you’re done, click on “Export to Gmail.”. Connect your Gmail account and you’re all set. Start spreading the holiday spirit!
You may also want to include bullet points of what is in progress so that your client knows you’re on top of things. That will also likely reduce the amount of emails sitting in your inbox when you return. Unlike a more generalized email (like the one I’ve provided) that you can send en masse, you’ll want to set aside some time to send more personalized emails out.
The big issue I have with the example in the post is that not only is it unnecessarily long-winded, but you have to listen through all the chattiness to get to the “here’s who to contact in a real emergency” part. The tone does rub me wrong, but I’m willing to roll with that as a personality/company culture thing.
How about warning people of what’s to come? Take a look at an example you can use below.
I’m guilty of the “pre-vacation warmip” email…but I send it on Wednesday so Last-minute Louie can contact me before I go out on Friday. (And it’s not all-office!)
Thanks for your email! I’ll be OOO from [date] to [date] and will not be accessing email during that time.
My European colleagues get an extended summer holiday all at the same time, which means we get OOO notes like this:
Ryan Reynolds (of Deadpool fame) doesn't just act. But you probably knew that. Why? Because he has some wildly funny out of office replies that went viral after he and good ol' Jimmy Fallon invited viewers to send Ryan an email.
Just a friendly reminder that we are closed today for the [Type of Holiday]. Hope you are having a wonderful day off! The office will be opened on [date and time] and we’ll be answering all your questions.
Thanks for your email. Right now I am camping in the countryside with my family which means I will be completely switching off from all technology for a few days (gasp!).
For immediate assistance, please contact me on my cell phone at (your cell phone number).
Yes, I phoned a dentist office late in the day for a reinfected root canal problem and got a cutsy “humphrey bogart” fake reply on their voicemail — I thought it was extremely inappropriate for a business office to use something like this. It was hard to find it funny, especially because while calling me “sweetheart” and all that, the message didn’t actually tell me when they might return my call (later that day? Next day? Next week? Never?) nor did they offer any options for emergency contact with another dentist.