How to deal with work emails on holidays

Ignore or reply?

26th May 2022

You’re counting the days down to sand, sun and sangria. Getting ready to put the Out of Office message on.  But have you thought about what you should do about those pesky emails that will undoubtedly be piling up in your inbox while you are sipping something smooth and cool?

Smartphones and apps make it impossible to ever be free and shut off completely

Of course, you could decide to ignore them entirely, hoping your out-of-office divert message will redirect the email to someone else.

You could go into half-holiday mode, keeping an eye out for anything important while deleting all the obvious spam.

Or you could just completely ignore all emails received while you are on holiday and then mass delete them in one flash go. This is only for the brave and not for the fainthearted!

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