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Daimler's Solution for Annoying Out-of-Office Email: Delete it

posted by azrael on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the delete-all-out-of-hours-emails-too dept.

AnonTechie 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. 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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 18 2014, @02:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 18 2014, @02:02AM (#82447)

    I worked with a dude who did this. He would say 'if its important they will ask again as they knew I was on vacation my email program told them'

    I use a similar system. I empty my email 'inbox' box just before I leave. Then when I get back I scan thru it and see if there is anything I need to act on. 99.99999% of the time I delete all of it. I use the done/not done approach to email.

    Honestly its a good excuse to get caught back up with what is going on and goof off for 2-3 hours. As I get about 100 per day. A 5 day vacation is a decent amount of email.