Ever go on vacation, only to be bombarded by work emails and meeting invites? What are you supposed to do? Should you respond to these invites with either
a. "no" if the meeting is during the vacation, or,
b. "yes" if the meeting is after vacation
This means you would have to spend precious vacation time parsing through these invites figuring out if they fall within your vacation window or not. What if you had your own automated virtual assistant to take care of these bureaucratic issues while you’re on a beach sipping mojitos? Isn’t that what computers are supposed to do, instead of taking over the world like Skynet wants to?
You can now let Office 365 Outlook take care of this bureaucratic business while you’re on vacation. Outlook will:
- Block your calendar for the duration of the vacation
- Automagically decline all invites sent you during your vacation that fall within your vacation window
- Decline any meetings you might have previously agreed to during this window, like daily standups
- Cancel any meetings you previously setup that falls within this window.
Please note: as of publishing this post, this feature is only available on the web version of Office 365 Outlook https://outlook.office.com
Screenshots below show how to setup this up. Enjoy your vacay!
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