AIBU to ask what email sign offs you use

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Just that really.

I think regards sounds grumpy.

Best wishes slightly flimsy.

Yours sincerely is more for hard copy letters.

Saw yours truly the other day but that sounds odd and somehow ancient.

I’m in a senior professional role in quite a conventional field. Currently use kind regards but feel like an update.

What are people using just now?

I have also worked with people who use warm regards, but I've never been tempted myself!

Ha, I still use warm regards even though it always gets slated on here. I only use regards when I’m annoyed and warm feels, well warmer, than kind regards.

Kind regards.

Definitely not 'Dear'; it's only used in unsolicited marketing emails. I would assume you were out of touch and a bit stuffy.

This will kill the pedants, but a comma after the name and the sign off is also considered old fashioned, and out of touch in digital comms.

If I like them: Best regards

if I don’t: Regards

Well, I am amazed to have discovered on here that many of you consider a plain 'regards' as cold or rude. I can't get my head around that, as the word on its own has always conveyed friendliness in a greeting, as far as I know. When did that change?

Kind regards

Depends on the recipient.

Regards, - formal
Best Regards, - a bit warmer
Kind Regards, - passive aggressive because I really want to kill you instead
Cheers - trying to appear cool
Thanks! - trying to appear friendly and up beat but I need you to do this
B - I just use my initial if they know me well enough

Best wishes, because I genuinely do wish you the best. Unless I dont, in which case its Regards. Or Many thanks if Im only writing to ask you to do something.

Really, people are using Kind Regards?

I find it almost comically quaint and old-fashioned. There's only one person I know who puts this, she must be in her seventies and I thought that perhaps she was a bit out of touch. But from this thread it seems I must be wrong as its a popular sign-off? It's a bit meaningless though as a phrase.

I will generally just put thanks (if appropriate) or occasionally Best Wishes, or just my name. Less is more.

Kind regards and then my name and my proffesional titles, company name, direct line ect

I work for a large company and it's what every single person in the firm uses as well as most of those responding to us.

Always use Kind Regards and Hi [Name] to start as standard.

My first email to someone if they don't know me, I generally use Good Morning/ Afternoon even though it does seem a little spammy as Hi seems too informal.

Kind regards

Really, so it seems normal to you? I suppose it's in the culture of your organisation, so everyone just copies everyone else.

But I suppose Yours sincerely (which I'd use for an actual letter) is also an antiquated phrase that has lost all meaning.

I only generally use a sign off if I initiate the email chain. It's usually kind regards or thanks (if I'm asking for something).

If I'm replying to an email I don't usually use any sign off. Just my name or maybe a smiley emoji or just nothing. I kind of treat them the same as texts or other messages. The exception would be if I'm emailing someone and want to keep things formal eg to my child's school.

Saw a post on Instagram the other day with truthful sign offs - 'hanging on by a thread' 'please don't reply' etc. 😅

And -

'Hi X, I hope this email doesn't find you at all, I hope you're free'

I use Thanks as a rule. I rather like Regards and don't like the adjectives in front, but have long since ditched it as everyone else seems to use it to people who have pissed them off.

Thanks on internal emails.

Regards on external emails.

But yeah, kind regards or thanks, mostly. Or cheers to my team.

Kind regards to most

Thanks - cheers - followed by a smiley face for close colleagues

Best wishes
Kind regards
Regards

I use all 3 at work.

Many thanks - if I'm grateful
Kind Regards - all purpose
Regards - if I'm irritated

I work with some who just puts "KR"

Just looked through the last week's emails, the vast majority say regards or thanks, which is what I use (or cheers, but not to the known non-drinkers...) They're mostly to/from blokes

I am another kind regards, but a colleague signs hers off warm regards which I think is nice.

That made me smile. I do the same - Best wishes or Kind regards which deteriorates to “Regards” and then just my name, depending on how much the writer of the email has annoyed me.