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RIP OOO, Hello PTO: Your Email Auto-Responder Is Quiet Quitting, One Message at a Time

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Summary
Nutrition label

67% Informative

A new trend is rearing its head in interoffice messaging and on social media.

Increasingly, workers aren’t specifying whether they’re sick, on vacation, getting married, or on parental leave, they are simplynot available.

With so many workers operating in hybrid or remote, the “office” is less a place and more a state of being.

A survey found 54% of workers admitted to working while on vacation and 63% said they feel anxious if they don’t check their work messages while vacation.

Experts say auto-replies are an attempt to stop working from taking over our lives.

OnTikTok, a popular content creator, recorded a sketch imagining an employee desperately defending Castle PTO’s borders from siege on an increasingly bonkers series of Zoom calls.

VR Score

61

Informative language

56

Neutral language

12

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

47

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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