Vacation responder in Slack and Teams.
Email auto-replies aren't enough anymore. Most work coordination happens in Slack and Teams. Here's how to set vacation responders, statuses, and DND in both — properly.
Email auto-replies aren't enough anymore. Most work coordination happens in Slack and Teams. Here's how to set vacation responders, statuses, and DND in both — properly.
Slack: set Status with custom emoji + text + duration, enable DND for the trip dates, optionally pause notifications globally. Teams: set Status to 'Out of office' with auto-reply text, configure quiet hours. Step-by-step below for each.
Click your profile photo → 'Update your status.' Choose a vacation emoji (🏝, 🌴, 🌊). Status text: 'Vacation through [date], back [return date].' Set 'Clear after' to your return date.
Click your profile photo → 'Pause notifications.' Set custom duration to your trip dates. This silences all notifications during the window.
Profile menu → 'Set yourself as away.' This shows you as inactive in everyone's view, even if Slack is technically open.
Native Slack doesn't auto-reply to DMs. Two workarounds:
Profile picture → 'Set status message' → 'Schedule out of office.' Toggle on 'Send automatic replies.' Type your message. Select date range.
Teams pulls from your Outlook out-of-office settings if connected. Setting OOO in Outlook automatically sets it in Teams.
Settings → Notifications → 'Quiet hours.' Set during your trip dates to silence after-hours pings.
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