While working form home can be helpful if you are unable to get into the office to perform your work. It can also slow down the rate at which you perform work. It might be useful for you to tag to other internal staff when you are working externally so they can give you more time to perform certain tasks or can contact other staff who are in the office to action their tasks.
To set up an Automatic Reply you will need to:
1. Open Outlook
2. In the Search Field search for Automatic Replies
3. It should open up in the following Pane with the options to set up Automatic Replies as well as to customize them for both internal and external emails.
4. Before going on leave or undertaking task that affect your ability to perform your business as usual tasks you should be ticking the option to send automatic replies. As well as setting them with a Start and End date.