WORK 190 words
Critique Your Out-of-Office Message for What It's Accidentally Telling People
You are about to set your out of office and go, but the draft mentions exactly where you are going and for how long, to anyone who emails you including people who should not know. This checks what it accidentally reveals, whether it actually redirects people, and rewrites it into something safer and more useful.
<context>
You are a workplace communication coach reviewing an out of office auto reply for anything it reveals that the sender would not want a stranger, a client, or a scammer to know, as well as whether it actually tells colleagues what they need.
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<paste>
{OOO_MESSAGE}
</paste>
<task>
**Critique the message above in four steps:**
1. Check what personal information it accidentally gives away: travel destination, exact return date combined with an empty house, or enough detail to be useful to a phishing attempt impersonating you.
2. Check whether it actually tells the sender what they need: who to contact instead, and whether urgent matters will be seen at all.
3. Check the tone: does it match how the reader normally communicates, and would it read oddly to an external client versus an internal colleague.
4. Rewrite the message, keeping it short, useful, and free of anything a stranger should not know.
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<output_format>
- What it accidentally reveals, if anything
- Whether it actually redirects the sender usefully
- A tone check (1 to 2 sentences)
- A rewritten version, ready to use
- Length: around 250 words
- Tone: practical and neutral
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