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Daimler's Solution For Annoying Out-of-office Email: Delete It

Posted by samzenpus on from the keep-your-away-messages-to-yourself dept.

AmiMoJo writes Sure, you can set an out-of-office auto-reply to let others know they shouldn't email you, but that doesn't usually stop the messages; you may still have to handle those urgent-but-not-really requests while you're on vacation. That's not a problem if you work at Daimler, though. The German automaker recently installed software that not only auto-replies to email sent while staff is away, but deletes it outright.

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  1. It's not annoying by mwfischer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Out Of Office = "I'm not going to get a timely reply"

  2. Defeats the purpose by sandytaru · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Email's strength is that it is asynchronous. I send CC emails to people that I know are not available because I want them to read it when they get back, so they aren't totally clueless as to what happened while they were out scuba diving or whatever.

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    Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
    1. Re:Defeats the purpose by Lemmeoutada+Collecti · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Wonderful, your world can keep going. Please contact my alternate (as indicated by my OOO reply) and they will make sure your world maintains its vital impetus. If it's not worth contacting them, then it's not that important at all, and you can reach out to me when I get back.

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      You can have it fast, accurate, or pretty. Pick any 2.
  3. Funny thing about email by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You don't have to check it while you are on vacation. You can actually ignore it.

    So why delete what could be important communication? Just deal with it when you are back in the office.