Email to Boss to Excuse from Meeting | Word & Excel Templates

Attending office meetings is part of a job. There may be situations when you were occupied due to some personal work and could not attend the meeting. The reasons are unlimited, for example, attending your kid’s school for a parent-teacher meeting, attending a funeral, having a doctor’s appointment, or bad weather. The situations are uncertain and sometimes unavoidable, halting your workplace activities.

When you are occupied and cannot attend the office meeting, writing an excuse letter to your boss is good. An excuse letter formally informs your boss that you have experienced an uncertain situation that has made you absent from the activity.

It is good to write to your boss if you already know the reason. In this situation, writing your boss makes him aware of your absence, and he can manage it by changing the meeting date and time or carrying it along in your absence. Whatever the situation, you are in the safe zone of your boss’s mind.

An email to the boss to excuse you from the meeting is a formal letter that an employee drafts to his/her boss when he/she cannot attend a meeting due to an uncertain situation. Writing this email enhances the employee’s credibility and is considered responsible behavior.

The following emails are helpful if you are occupied and want to write an email to your boss.

Email -1

Subject: Excuse from meeting

Dear Sir,

I am sorry and want to apologize for not attending the company managers’ meeting on 14-04-20XX. I had no idea that you would be asked several questions about my work in my absence.

Being a responsible manager, I had to be there. Still, an hour before the meeting, I received a call from my son’s school head that he was involved in a fighting incident with a group, and as a result, he received many serious injuries. I did not think anything at that time except for my son’s life.

Although his mother could have attended to him, it required rapid decision-making power at that time, and I thought of myself as the best option. Consequently, I ran towards the hospital. When I got myself free from the hospital’s formalities, meeting time had passed. He is fine now and out of danger.

I request you to pardon me for this act. All of it was so sudden that I could not attend the meeting. But at the same time, I am eager to know about the company’s new policies. So, please arrange a separate meeting for me if possible. I hope our association will not be affected at all owing to this act.

I hope again that you will accept my excuse.

Yours sincerely

Anderson
Assistant Manager of Stars Marketing Company
Michigan, USA.
15-04-20XX

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Email -2

Subject: Excuse from meeting

Dear Sir,

I am sending this email to you to submit my excuse for the act of negligence that I did. I admit that I received your email about meeting well before time. Just one and a half hours before the meeting, I received a call from Brooke Hospital, Michigan, that my first cousin, John, was severely injured in an accident and admitted to the hospital. He is living all alone in this city without his family. I was the only person at that time who could be contacted. So, without wasting any time, I rushed to the hospital. On seeing his condition, I did not dare to leave him alone there since he had severe head injuries and was still in the comma.

He needed complete attention and care at that time, so I stayed with him until his family members arrived. I did not attend the meeting, though I was informed earlier, due to the above-mentioned problem.

I know how important it was to attend the meeting, but I regret not being there. I would not have thought about missing this meeting if this problem had not occurred. I hope you will understand the delicate nature of the problem and accept my excuse.

I thank you in anticipation.

Yours sincerely,

Anderson
Assistant Manager of Stars Marketing Company
Michigan, USA.
15-04-20XX

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