Out of Office Hats

Out of office is the one message every desk worker wants to send. It is also a proven badge: Out Of Office trucker and vacation hats already sell on Etsy, and a lifestyle brand has built bags, hats and towels around the phrase. The two terms are not interchangeable, either. As one explainer puts it, PTO is an accounting term and OOO is a communication term, and these hats are about the communication. The numbers explain the appeal. A FlexJobs report found that 23% of US workers took no vacation day in the past year, mostly because of heavy workloads and fear of falling behind, and the 2016 Project Time Off study found that 54% of workers ended the year with unused time, 662 million days forfeited. A hat that says you actually left is a small act of rebellion. The lines borrow the committed corporate voice of the auto-reply: I WILL HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO EMAIL (NONE), a flip of the real-life line of limited access to email, FOR URGENT MATTERS PLEASE CONTACT SOMEONE ELSE, I'LL REPLY WHEN I RETURN TO CIVILIZATION and I CAN BE REACHED BY WAITING UNTIL I GET BACK, all in the register of the famous funny out-of-office messages. Two strong lines get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one by the pool, give one before a trip, or buy one for the coworker who has been hoarding PTO.