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OoO Notification Limbo
The emails that arrive in the work inbox during the time frame just prior to going on vacation but before setting an out of office reply. With everything else that needs to be done before leaving - there's no way to respond in person, but equally there's a deeply ingrained social compulsion to provide some kind of acknowledgment.
How the social boundaries of who is notified of what continues to blur: as work email goes increasingly mobile; as there are more ways to notify; as we build up an understanding of sufficiently trusted sources of notification information.
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Writing from Tokyo | August 18, 2008 | Permalink