2017.12.20
英文メールの書き方：欠席する旨を伝える
こんなシチュエーション、お仕事でありませんか？
家族が感染症にかかったため、明日は有給を取って看病することにしました。でも明日は重要な会議があるので、可能ならば自宅から電話で会議に参加したい。同僚に休むこと、その理由と、家から会議に参加希望であることをメールしなければなりません。
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みなさま、
明日の会議ですが、出席できなくなりました。妻と子供が感染症にかかり、看病が必要になったため、明日は家にいるのがベストだと判断しました。
私自身は元気ですので、できればスカイプで会議に参加させていただきたいです。ご不便をおかけし、申し訳ありません。
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Hello everyone, welcome to E-mail Picks. Are you and your family all doing well?
Because my wife texted me a few minutes
ago to tell me that she and our child
have become sick.
It looks like my child has brought home
some kind of disease from his nursery
school and they are both feeling very
sick. I feel okay now
but according to my wife, the doctor said
that it's an infectious disease.
Infectious diseases are the kind of
diseases that can be passed on very
easily to other people, so I have a good
chance of catching it too. Now I have a
meeting scheduled with my colleagues
but I decided to take a day off.
It's because I thought my family would
like someone there -- a healthy person
there to cook for them and look after
them, and besides I don't want to pass on the
disease to my colleagues, but we are
discussing pretty important stuff in
tomorrow's meeting. So unless I become
very, very sick, I want to join the
meeting using Skype. So now I'm going to
write to my colleagues to tell them that
I'll be absent from work and the meeting,
and I'll write the reason and my plan to
join a meeting via online chat. So here
goes: Dear colleagues, I'm afraid I will
not be able to physically attend our
next meeting as both my wife and child
are unable to take care of themselves
due to an infectious disease, I've decided
it's best for me to stay home too.
However, I myself feel fine at the moment
and if possible, I would like to
participate in the meeting via Skype. I'm
sorry for the inconvenience Kyota.
OK, so in this e-mail, I'm making it clear
that I won't be there for the meeting,
but I still want to join through a chat
system. In the first paragraph, I wrote
"I will not be able to physically attend
our next meeting" and in the second
paragraph I wrote "if possible, I would
like to participate in the meeting via
Skype." I wrote the reason briefly and
avoided saying details because I thought
details on which disease or what kind of
pain my family is going through right
now are not so important information for
my colleagues. They just need to know
why I cannot attend, there's no need to
be dramatic here.
Alright, so that's my e-mail to inform my
absence. My next task is to download a
cooking recipe app and find a nutritious
dish that even I can make. Alright, so
thank you for watching again and see you
next week.
Because my wife texted me a few minutes
ago to tell me that she and our child
have become sick.
It looks like my child has brought home
some kind of disease from his nursery
school and they are both feeling very
sick. I feel okay now
but according to my wife, the doctor said
that it's an infectious disease.
Infectious diseases are the kind of
diseases that can be passed on very
easily to other people, so I have a good
chance of catching it too. Now I have a
meeting scheduled with my colleagues
but I decided to take a day off.
It's because I thought my family would
like someone there -- a healthy person
there to cook for them and look after
them, and besides I don't want to pass on the
disease to my colleagues, but we are
discussing pretty important stuff in
tomorrow's meeting. So unless I become
very, very sick, I want to join the
meeting using Skype. So now I'm going to
write to my colleagues to tell them that
I'll be absent from work and the meeting,
and I'll write the reason and my plan to
join a meeting via online chat. So here
goes: Dear colleagues, I'm afraid I will
not be able to physically attend our
next meeting as both my wife and child
are unable to take care of themselves
due to an infectious disease, I've decided
it's best for me to stay home too.
However, I myself feel fine at the moment
and if possible, I would like to
participate in the meeting via Skype. I'm
sorry for the inconvenience Kyota.
OK, so in this e-mail, I'm making it clear
that I won't be there for the meeting,
but I still want to join through a chat
system. In the first paragraph, I wrote
"I will not be able to physically attend
our next meeting" and in the second
paragraph I wrote "if possible, I would
like to participate in the meeting via
Skype." I wrote the reason briefly and
avoided saying details because I thought
details on which disease or what kind of
pain my family is going through right
now are not so important information for
my colleagues. They just need to know
why I cannot attend, there's no need to
be dramatic here.
Alright, so that's my e-mail to inform my
absence. My next task is to download a
cooking recipe app and find a nutritious
dish that even I can make. Alright, so
thank you for watching again and see you
next week.
