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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   
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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• Re:Happening across Europe Re:Happening across Europe (Score: 3, Insightful) by arslan on Monday August 18 2014, @02:15AM

  by arslan (3462) on Monday August 18 2014, @02:15AM (#82450)

  This is awesome! I wonder when the rest of the world will follow suit. I betcha middle management will try its best to stop/delay this.

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• Re:Happening across Europe (Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday August 18 2014, @11:15PM

  by isostatic (365) on Monday August 18 2014, @11:15PM (#82816) Journal

  Middle management are the ones most likely to benefit from a ban on email outside of "office hours".

  I know more than one middle manager whose smartphone ended up at the bottom of a swimming pool on holiday.

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