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Out of Office Blues

Our Correspondent
May 06, 2013
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It may be so much standard practice that nobody ever thinks twice but goes along with it, totally oblivious to the risks and implications. I am referring to those seemingly harmless out-of-office notifications. Consider this (sanitized) auto-reply email I recently received from a client:

"I am out of the office on a family holiday in Fiji till 6 May and…

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