Todd M. Gemskie

It’s still a pretty simple shift in our paradigm of workplace, office or home or remote location. As long as we have access with the blackberry (or other smart phone) and able to send and receive email/text/phone calls, we’re basically never out of the office unless on leave and going to be unavailable. Shift your paradigm of “office” and don’t…[Read more]

If you are working, regardless of where, you are never out of office if you have a blackberry tied in to your email. Anyone who sends you an email probably isn’t relying on you being at your desk. It’s really hard to think of a time to use “out of office reply” unless you are gone on leave that would render someone unavailable. So, the only…[Read more]

You should set a limit of time and also evaluate the value of generic email that’s tossed in to your account. If you have a lot of emails from stores, websites, etc, you might want to set up an additional email and use that one for generic “Kohl’s weekend special super duper clearance discount for four hours only…” emails. Then your “real…[Read more]