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1font01b01i00He's not in02i02b00 00only means01i01b00 He's out of the office02b02i02font00?02br
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1font01b00That doesn't mean02b00 01b01i00He's not at his desk at the moment but he's in somewhere in the office,02i00 00right?02b02font02br
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00 The usual way to give this meaning would be "He's 01i00away from his desk02i00 right now."02br
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0Hi,02br
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00You could also, of course, say 'He's out (of the office)'.02br
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00Clive'.0-

0This is interesting to me. 02br
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00Let's say the callee says:02br
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00He is not here. => means the callee looked around and he didn't see him there. He could still be in the office but not anywhere visible to the callee.02br
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00He just walked away => means he just walked away from his desk. He could be somewhere in th

0Hi,02br
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00A couple of comments.02br
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01font00He has not come in => means he is late for work 00No, this sounds like you don't thik he is gouing to come in today at all.00 He has not come in 01b00yet 02b02font00sounds like he will come in soon.02br
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0Well, at one time I was "on maternity leave," but I guess you never were, Clive! You might say someone is "on sick leave" if they are planning to be away for a lengthy illness, perhaps not even receiving any salary, but the company is holding their job available for their return. Or someone who has been removed from their job pending investigation of possible wrongdoing might be on "administr

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00Point taken. You can see I've never been pregnant.05002br
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00Howver, in the places I've worked, people have always been circumspect about giving out personal information about reasons for absence. eg We've never said01b00 He's in jail for six months02b00 or 01b00He's in rehab for his drinking proble

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0One quick question. So do you still say 'He is on vacation' even though he does not come to work on a Wednesday only? Or there is a natural way of saying this.02br
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00My impression of 'He is on vacation' is at least a few days long which could mean he is going on a road trip or out of town. 0-

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01cite10Clive12cite10Anyway, the expression 11b10'he/she's on leave'12b10 still sounds unlikely to me.12br
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10In the UK, our paid holiday allocation from work is called Annual Leave. It's typically expressed as a number of days - "I get 27 days Annual Leave, plu