Would this be acceptable in your workplace?

"knowledge" i think you mean hope? The customer is always right my bosses over the decades would be horrified/rightfully pissed off were a client to receive such a passive aggressive OOO

does one not have a fiduciary responsibility to action what needs to be actioned? It's a pain but everyone any place ive work know that (and it's a pain) depending on how long you were off, you will need to clear your inbox. Generally, in my experience loads are generic, automatic, or all staff emails that are easily identified and can be deleted. Anything sent to you and you alone needs to be reviewed. I guess it depends on the industry, i'm guessing if one is working in a biscuit factory this would likely not be an issue....

They’d be told to take it off at the place I work for, it would be a faff. It’s expected to just be going through your emails on the first day back, not having people resend everything

If I sending an email to 25 people, I want to send it once, to all of them. Not note that Debbie returns 25th, Tom returns 28th etc. Because they won't be the only group I'm emailing so I also need to know that June from the other group also returns on 25th etc.

In our place you see the ooo as you type the email address in so if I see Jane is on holiday until after completion of this activity, I can omit her from the cc list. But I'm not resending it. Life's too short to pander to that kind of nonsense.

It's not up to you to organise someone else's inbox because they can't be arsed to scan through them with they return and work out what needs doing vs what has already been dealt with.
What do these people do about important updates that land in their inbox whilst they're off?

This makes no sense. If someone (a client or whatever) is OOO and you don't know that beforehand (which one likely wouldn't) what's the trigger to NOT send the email?

I do this.

It hugely speeds up working through the email backlog when returning from holiday.

It also highlights how the vast majority of work emails I receive are completely pointless.

That would be so annoying. Would end up with loads of things I had to remember whereas if it's sent they can just look at it when they have a chance after their return.

This was acceptable in my previous job and I only ever did it if it was for something that would benefit me/get my work done. 🙈 if I was doing the OOO colleague a favour or courtesy, and I received a ‘please resend on X date’, I just ignored it. It’s their work not mine, they can follow up if it’s important.

I can see why it’s convenient for person receiving the EMails. If the matter is in any way time sensitive it might have been resolved by the time they return to work.
I can also see why it seems brusque and unreasonable to the sender.
Maybe a compromise is to have the out of office message saying something like they will deal with the matter on their return but will just send a quick EMail asking the sender to confirm that it still needs attention.

I've never seen it in my career of 30 odd years. I current work at a large global software company and have still never it.

But last time there was a thread about this, lots of people seemed to say it was the norm now.

Worked in Local Govt, colleagues never picked up other work as own caseload too big. Admin not interested in helping, and friendly with management, so if I was on leave, the out of office email not only had to warn sender not to expect an answer until I was back, but also that no one else would answer either…

the joy of a couple of hundred emails on my return (including the cake in the tearoom ones!) Also, the joy of 20 people thinking I’d sorted their email request by 9.30 am on my first day back…

i think it's a good idea and it cuts down email traffic.
Most people's email systems can have emails sent on a particular date/time. Just do that.

Completely unacceptable for anyone on annual leave.
If they are on sick leave, or if they are so busy and important that they can't read through emails when they get back, then a redirect should be set up for someone to receive their emails in their absence.

My work isn't particularly time sensitive in that it can wait a week or two. My OOO gives my return date and advises it will be dealt with then.

I don’t think it would be seen an unacceptable. But I’ve never seen it said.

I don’t think it’s wildly unreasonable. Sometimes people send an email not know the person is on leave, then they find someone else to help with whatever the email is about, so by the time the person comes back it’s all resolved but they don’t know that when they read the email.

You can write an email then schedule a date for it to send.

An out of office reply, is fine, but not an instruction to resend, they already have the email.

Never heard of it but I think it is a good idea.

It's absolutely ridiculous, but last time someone started a thread about this issue, the majority of posters said they thought it was fine. The onus is on the email recipient to look through emails and decide what still needs to be actioned. Crazy to think the sender is under any obligation to re-send.

I think it’s okay because of the pace of change nowadays. Most requests in my work would be redundant or at least very out of date by a week later.

Spending two days sifting though and chasing people up to find out if it’s still relevant wastes their time and yours.

Not in my workplace (medical). We have to specify the days we are off and who is responsible for our emails while we are off, otherwise it would be chaos.
Normally the person on triage will sort it out.

The only time I have come across it is with one of DC's consultants who is out on sabbatical for several months.

The OOO is along the lines of "I am currently out of the office until 01-09-25. I will not be going through any emails received between 01-05-25 and 31-08-25 upon my return so please resend your message to [email protected] or [email protected] if you need assistance. Alternatively resend directly to me, after my return date"

At work, most of my correspondence with clients is done over email and I have never seen this on anyone's OOO, I don't like it at all.

It wouldn't be acceptable where I work.

The trick to avoid wasting time on things that have been resolved while you were away is to read your inbox from the top down (so start with the most recent email, not the oldest).

It's wild as it assumes people are supposed to be making notes of everyone's leaves and remembering to send stuff when they're back. I do get it can be overwhelming when you're back from leave and have a mountain of emails (many of which can be deleted), but depending on your role if its email heavy it's not reasonable.