Out of Office Auto-Reply

When to use this

Tuned for an executive's inbox. No 'limited access' fudge — set a clear return date and a real alternative contact. If you check email while away, don't tell them you do.

What to customise before you use it

• Replace date with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
• Replace Name with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
• Replace Role with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
• Replace Email / phone with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
• Replace type of issue with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
• Replace other type with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.
• Replace Your name with your real meeting, project, or stakeholder details.

Subject: Out of office — back [date]

Thank you for your message.

I'm out of the office and will return on [date]. I'll respond to your email after that.

For anything urgent before then, please contact:
- [Name], [Role], [Email / phone] — for [type of issue]
- [Name], [Role], [Email / phone] — for [other type]

If your matter is time-sensitive but not urgent, sending again on [date] is the surest way to surface it.

Thank you for your patience.

[Your name]