Whether youâre off sick, away on training or somewhere blissfully sunny, youâll need to set-up your âOut of Officeâ auto-reply. Most people tend to go with the boring and basic formula of apologies and redirection to someone else who might be able to help. Weâve scoured the internet and gathered 10 of our favourite responses. After reading these, you might rethink your own!
Use the time away with no employees working to restart equipment such as computers, laptops, etc. Restarts are necessary to keep updates installed and the machines running smoothly.
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Thanks so much for your email. Iâve decided to take advantage of the holiday weekend and truly take [Monday/Friday] off. In an effort to come back fully recharged, I wonât be checking my email. Donât worry though, if itâs urgent, you can reach out to [name] at [email address].
Incorporating visuals or GIF images to automated reply messages, you have a greater chance of customers reading your emails and completing the desired call-to-action (CTA).Including visuals or GIF images to the automated email messages makes it interesting and appealing to the recipients. Visuals enhance the description of your messages sent to your customers.6. Personalize your automated messages
Yeah, that bugs me because a) now I donât know when you actually will be back, and b) leaves me unsure what other information in the message may also out of date
And although my colleague had mixed feelings about her own parents joining that population in Florida, she couldn't be too upset when her dad suggested flying down from Boston for a Red Sox spring training game.
I suppose Iâd rather know that and be able to factor it in to my schedule, irritating as it is, than not know and get caught by the month-long delay.
If youâve been inspired by Rachaelâs efforts and want to spread a little festive cheer, there are some fantastic examples to help you do just that...!
One day, the boss said I needed to start answering phones, and did not accept my pushback.
I have no idea how to update my voicemail message and I donât actually know what it says. I occasionally get voicemails that are automatically forwarded to my email as sound files but I donât think I have ever had a business related voicemail land there (it is rare that I get calls from outside the company and most people in the company if they canât reach me on the phone will IM me directlyâwe use Teams for both phone and messaging).
I just say that Iâm out of the office. Practically, it makes no difference where this office is located.
So, take a lesson from @courtwhip, editor at PEDESTRIAN.TV, who wrote the above hilarious out-of-office email, fully stocked with mentions of the best movies from the 1990s. (By the way, "Splinter" is from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and as we all know, he loves pizza.)
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I personally like it. Of course, the emails that Iâve seen still say what to do if the matter is urgent and needs to be handled now â but as a person who gets 100+ emails a day, whether I tell you Iâm deleting all of them when I get back or not â if it is in the thousands of emails that might accumulate in the time I am off, Iâm not going to see it or respond. Better that I tell you now that you are going to have to resend the email after I return (or get my backup to handle it now) than you sit around waiting for a response that is never going to come. It is actually pretty common in my industry for any absence two weeks or more.
I emailed this person 3 times and never got a response. Thankfully they werenât upset when we moved forward without their input.
Usually, people take leave for vacation, business traveling, maternity leave, or sickness. Additionally, sometimes employees who will no longer work in a company also need to provide an out-of-office message for their customers, especially if they are in a high-level management position working closely with those customers.
Being gone doesnât mean you canât still be doing good for the company. With a lead generation email, you can inspire action in the receiver. Consider using the end of your message to call for action. You can ask your customers to check out your products, read your blog, or maybe become a part of your affiliate program.