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azrael
on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:25PM
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.
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. If there's a meltdown at the workplace, you may not have to deal with it at all. The move affects about 100,000 employees, so it's clearly going to make an impact.
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Daimler's Solution for Annoying Out-of-Office Email: Delete it
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 2) by carguy on Monday August 18 2014, @02:01AM
I worked for an interesting prof when I was an undergrad (pre-email). He had a heart attack and was out for 6-8 weeks. The first day he came back, I happened to be in his office. There was a pile of mail (mostly interdepartmental) which he summarily threw in the trash. I never heard that there were any consequences from this "clean start".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 18 2014, @05:41PM
They guy had a heart attack! I don't think he really cares about old mail. I sure as hell would not.