[jameshush]

This is all great advice. My company uses slack instead of email, what’s helped me is silencing slack but telling people they can call me if there’s a fire. Before then I set up all the systems I can to prevent anything from slipping through, so I haven’t been called on vacation yet.

It’s all about setting expectations and delegating responsibility in advance.

[foogazi]

Having a backup plan helps.

Also making full use of the available tools:

- calendar OOO messages

- automated email replies

- slack status messages showing OOO dates

[jameshush]

Yup! All these are very simple things you can do. People forget to do the simple things because they think work is more complicated then it is.