Out of Office
Don’t make them wait.
Customers and stakeholders are impatient.
Make progress while team members disconnect with automated handovers to available coverers.
Absences won’t be blockers
Reassign to coverers
Don’t slow down when a team member is away.
Out of Office rules can automatically reassign their issues and approvals!
Sync your calendar
Integrate with Outlook & more
Connect your Auto Replies from Outlook, your Vacation Responder from Gmail (coming soon), or control your status from Slack.
You can also automate with Zapier, plan time off with Tempo, or build your custom integration with our REST API.
Or build your custom integration with our REST API.
LAUNCH YOUR TEAM
Power up your team dynamics with
Out of Office Assistant for Jira Cloud
Use Cases
Absence Management
Delegate Approvals
The Handover Shop
Out of Office today is about automating handovers and speeding up delivery.
Don’t miss out on all our tips and best practices!
Out of Office rules
Define Out of Office rules. As many as you need.
- Select a start date and an optional end date
- Project-based or JQL-based rule triggers
- Create simultaneous rules for different sets of issues
Out of Office messages
- Optionally share out of office messages with customers
- The message is optional when the rule defines coverers and/or approver coverers
- Message can be triggered when a customer responds (automation setup required)
User Administration
- Admins can manage rules
- Project admins have admin rights over project members
- Includes the ability to create API Tokens with admin scope and for other users
Capacity Reporting
- Look back on reassignments done by Out of Office
- Track issues whose assignees are Out of Office
- Report on capacity and productivity KPIs: story points at risk, total issues reassigned per coverer, or which projects have more team members out of office.
Issue Glance
See when an assignee is Out of Office and when they will be back
Mention tags
Trigger warnings of upcoming and current absences when users are mentioned in Jira
API for developers
Connect to any third party platform with REST API Tokens
Get Started with Out of Office Assistant
User Guide
Features
Integrations
Connect Jira
Video Overview
- Tutorial
- Tempo Integration
- Google Calendar
- Connect Outlook
- App for Slack