Setting Up Vacation and Holiday Call Rules [Video] If you’re going on vacation or closing your business for a holiday, you can set up special call rules with RingCentral. Call rules can dictate anything from forwarding calls to another extension, playing a customized message, to shutting off voicemail.
Several of my coworkers still have page-long “Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, our department will be…” auto-replies set up 24/7, even though the basic function of our office has barely changed. I’m currently working odd part time hours right now, and if there weren’t so many of these annoying emails going around, I’d have one that clarifies my email timelines, but I don’t want to be another spammer.
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I’m tempted to make out a “SUPER DUPER HELPFUL COWORKER” certificate to hand to them.
Hello, Happy holidays! Thank you for your email; we are currently closed for the Easter holidays. It won’t be possible to respond to our email as I have limited access to the internet. But once I am back I will respond as quickly as usual. Kind Regards,
International locations, such as Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, may observe different holidays. Holiday Schedule Official University Holiday FY 2021–2022 (Observed*) FY 2022–2023 (Observed*) Independence Day July 5, 2021 July 4, 2022 Labor Day September 6, 2021 September 5, 2022 Thanksgiving Day November 25, 2021 November 24, 2022 Day After Thanksgiving November 26, 2021 November 25, 2022 Christmas Eve December 23, 2021 December 23, 2022 Christmas Day December 24, 2021 December 26, 2022 New Year's Eve December 30, 2021 December 30, 2022 New Year's Day December 31, 2021 January 2, 2023 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 17, 2022 January 16, 2023 Memorial Day May 30, 2022 May 29, 2023 Juneteenth June 20, 2022 June 19, 2023
Depending on the type of holiday, you can create specific templates for various holidays such as Christmas Thanksgiving, New Year etc.:
'I’m away from my desk at the moment but will respond the moment they give me a desk' (Credit: Getty Images)
For non-urgent inquiries, I will return your message as soon as I get back in the office.
7.( مرحبا بكم في مكتب محاماة .John Doe عذرا، إننا غير قادرين الآن على الرد شخصيا على مكالمتكم، لأنكم تتصلون بنا خلال عطلتنا السنوية. لا تترددوا في مراسلتنا على البريد الإلكتروني للمعلومات [email protected] - سنتصل بكم في أقرب وقت ممكن عند عودتنا. في الحالات العاجلة، يرجى الاتصال بمندوب مكتبنا. يمكنكم الاطلاع
There ought to be a word - and perhaps there is, in German - for the mix of feelings that accompanies composing and activating a holiday out-of-office message. There's smugness, of course, and a gratifying sense of laying down one's virtual tools after a horribly long shift. But for many of us, these nice feelings are tempered by the knowledge that in two weeks, refreshed but depressed, we will have to trawl through hundreds of emails, many of which will be conference room notifications for meetings about crises that have passed.
“Hi, Sorry I missed your call/text. I’m currently out of the office and will not be back until Feb 2. My colleague [name] has agreed to respond on my behalf, so feel free to forward the message to [phone] if it is urgent. You can otherwise expect a response from me once I return. Thanks for understanding.”
AH #2 – Closed with Voicemail. Thank you for calling Business Name. We are currently closed for the Christmas Break and will be reopening for business as usual on Time and Date. If you would like to leave a message, please do so after the tone including your Name and a Contact number and we will be in touch when we reopen.
Honestly, I like when people do this. I think it’s straightforward and it makes it clear that I still am in ownership of the problem (as opposed to wondering whether the other person has/will see it and what their timeline is).
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I’m here to talk to you about someone you know. Catalina Wong is out of office until September 27. She wanted me to let you know that she’ll get back to you after her return.
How about warning people of what’s to come? Take a look at an example you can use below.
7.( مرحبا بكم في مكتب محاماة .John Doe عذرا، إننا غير قادرين الآن على الرد شخصيا على مكالمتكم، لأنكم تتصلون بنا خلال عطلتنا السنوية. لا تترددوا في مراسلتنا على البريد الإلكتروني للمعلومات [email protected] - سنتصل بكم في أقرب وقت ممكن عند عودتنا. في الحالات العاجلة، يرجى الاتصال بمندوب مكتبنا. يمكنكم الاطلاع