How To Get Back From Vacation

It's now mid-January, meaning that many of you are now getting back to work after a long, well-deserved break. Over in the New York Times, Marci Alboher has a few tips for transmogrifying yourself back into work mode without too much trouble.

Here's one of her most important tips—one that I am consistently late in remembering :

Remove all out-of-office messages. I can't tell you how often I call someone and get a message saying they are out of the office until a certain date and that certain date is a good week before the date I'm calling. If a person can't remember to remove an out-of-office message, I'd be hesitant to trust him or her with pretty much any other task.