{"id":367,"date":"2011-08-22T01:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2011-08-22T01:43:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T01:43:46","slug":"out-of-office-ooo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/22\/out-of-office-ooo\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Office (OOO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I take a lot of pride in recording my Out of Office voicemail greeting and even more care when scribing my Out of Office email response.\u00a0 I use my voicemail OOO sparingly, I must admit.\u00a0 I only do it when I know I\u2019ll be on extensive air travel or in a conference which will dominate the lion\u2019s share of the business day.\u00a0 If I\u2019m simply out on appointments or on car or train travel, my delays are going to be far more minimal and thus voicemail can be caught in a matter of hours.\u00a0I\u2019m markedly more liberal with my OOO for email.\u00a0 Since I\u2019ve long prided myself on responding to email requests or questions in minutes (even seconds), a half-days delay, or even a delay of a few hours, I\u2019ve deemed inexcusable.\u00a0 By having a well crafted OOO response to emails, I\u2019ve bought myself time and I\u2019ve preempted any frustrations that would have otherwise been generated by my lapse.<\/p>\n

But as careful as I am about my own OOO, I\u2019m also quite critical of others.\u00a0 At most, as a professional, you have a one business day grace period for taking a voicemail or email message off that\u2019s no longer applicable.\u00a0 And there\u2019s no tolerance for reactivating an OOO that is outdated.\u00a0 If I call you today, in August, and from your voicemail I gather that you will be out of the office for the duration Martin Luther King Day and the week that follows, I will make the assumption that you are no longer gainfully employed by that organization.<\/p>\n

What people don\u2019t realize is, just as you would take care in crafting a thoughtful reply to an email, your OOO is the surrogate for that thoughtful reply.\u00a0 So it better be equally thoughtful \u2013 because oh, by the way, that reply is being sent to anyone that writes you on that day.\u00a0 It\u2019s another opportunity to be clever \u2013 think of it as a free marketing piece.\u00a0 Why not take advantage of it?\u00a0 And same goes for voicemail.\u00a0 Your ability to deliver an important message while still being memorable will go a long way.\u00a0 And a misstep here can be an all too frustrating and fatal flaw.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I take a lot of pride in recording my Out of Office voicemail greeting and even more care when scribing my Out of Office email response.\u00a0 I use my voicemail OOO sparingly, I must admit.\u00a0 I only do it when I know I\u2019ll be on extensive air travel or in a conference which will dominate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nOut of Office (OOO) - hotel-lobbyists.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/22\/out-of-office-ooo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Out of Office (OOO) - hotel-lobbyists.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I take a lot of pride in recording my Out of Office voicemail greeting and even more care when scribing my Out of Office email response.\u00a0 I use my voicemail OOO sparingly, I must admit.\u00a0 I only do it when I know I\u2019ll be on extensive air travel or in a conference which will dominate […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/22\/out-of-office-ooo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"hotel-lobbyists.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-08-22T01:43:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outofoffice.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Administrator\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Administrator\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/22\/out-of-office-ooo\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/22\/out-of-office-ooo\/\",\"name\":\"Out of Office (OOO) - 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