Making your "Out of the Office" Message Work for You

Email contact assumes the ability to instant reply. When you have to be away for any period of time, you should not only leave an Out of the Office message on your email, you should make it work for you.

Karen Gedney of ClickZ had written an interesting little article:

Your Vacation Message: Make It Work for You

I wish everyone who goes away on a course, workshop, seminar, holiday, sick leave, dirty weekend - would put an "out of the office" message on their email. If you're anything like me, you've spent days wondering if people have received mail; what their response is to what you've sent; if your message has disintegrated in cyberspace and never reached its destination; if you should send another message or if it would be rude - gone through all the turmoil, only to find out later that the recipient of your email was "out of the office".