When leaving an out-of-office
autoreply message,
value the other person’s time
as much as your own.
“If your auto-responder includes
more than two ways
to get in touch with you
in an emergency,
you’re doing it wrong.
By the time you get to
“If your message is urgent,
contact me through awayfind.com/joeschmoe,
then text ‘50445’
to my Google Voice number,
then shoot an e-mail
to vacationjoe@gmail.com,”
we’ve already given up.”
Keep it short.
Keep it simple.