Thankfully, with a simple out of office message taking a day off doesn’t mean that your communication with clients has to stop.
12 Examples of Professional Out of Office Emails – Permanent and Temporary Autoresponses
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Out of office emails should be short, succinct, and to the point – and should never include more information than is needed.
While you certainly don’t want to go on and on in your message, there is an opportunity to engage or educate while you’re away. Here are a few options to potentially include.
If they have to leave an OOO message for being out for an hour for a meeting, clearly it is A Big Deal in that office :(
This particular message is too freakin long and it makes me watch it, too. Har har, thanks for wasting my time.
Hope you all are fine and doing well. As we know that the festive season is arriving and we all are looking forward to the holidays. These holidays will allow us all to enjoy the great season and have some amazing time with family and friends. This email is to inform you [all] that the office will be closed for [X] days from [DATE] to [DATE] due to the coming festive season. Our premises will remain closed for normal business from [start date] up to and including [last date]. We will start working on normal days from [DATE] and all the business practices will resume on [re-opening date]. If you have any queries related to the closure period please do not hesitate to contact me. Happy Holidays!
If you need my assistance before then, you can reach me at my mobile – (Mobile Number).
I am out of the office on leave and will return on September 25. Please contact Jean Awad at [email protected] in my absence.
Hi there. I’m out of the office until Monday, 14 August, with limited access to email.
I’ll add “with limited access to email and voicemail” if I’m out because of work-related stuff (back when we used to have offsite meetings!), and “with no access to email and voicemail” if I’m truly on PTO.
This is so funny to be because I would chuckle getting those! You have personal context which is how you know that there is an aggeressive/accusatory tone….but without that context I would interpret these as boundaried and light-hearted. (With the exception of the ‘momtears’ one, that would feel overly personal to me.)
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Pet peeve: a fe people I know use the OOO reply to say something like ‘Have a great day!’ It is on all the time, and for no helpful reason.
I’d be happier getting this than one of the out-of-office messages that provides waayyy too much detail — “I’m at home nursing an unhappy stomach, hope to be in tomorrow, but meanwhile am resting and checking email in between bathroom runs,” etc.