A very large percentage of my day is spent reading emails from other employees in my company to figure out if there's anything I should be doing with it. If I'

A very large percentage of my day is spent reading emails from other employees in my company to figure out if there's anything I should be doing with it. If I'm on vacation, I'm not online to receive an IM. Anything important that needs work from me would have instead been filed as a bug and can be assigned to me on my return if it hasn't been fixed yet.