Day 222/365: Friday's Unscientific Poll: Automatic replies

[nanila]

Poll #20319 E-mail on holiday

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 60

When I go off on holiday, I set up automatic replies notifying senders of my absence on

my work e-mail account(s)
37 (63.8%)

my personal e-mail account(s)
0 (0.0%)

none of the above
23 (39.7%)

I don't set up automatic replies on my e-mail account because

I like to be mysterious
2 (5.1%)

I figure nobody needs to know (except maybe my boss, if I have one)
8 (20.5%)

I figure nobody cares
10 (25.6%)

They clutter up inboxes
8 (20.5%)

Some other reason which I may describe in comments or may keep to myself (mysterious!)
21 (53.8%)

Comments

[antisoppist]

I used to put work ones on but I can't now remember how. And on consideration I find it better for building friendly personal relationships with project managers who send me work to e-mail them individually with my holiday dates. Many of my clients have some sort of online system where I can add holidays to a calendar so they don't contact me for a particular period. Scandinavians also expect me to take a long summer break and will have been asking me to tell them when I am taking it since about May. There will be a lot of "did you have a peaceful holiday" e-mails going around from when everyone comes back in mid-August and those sort of brief personal exchanges are also good for building relationships now that a lot of business contact is via anonymous platforms.