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Many, best, friendly, warm or even dear greetings?

Or the original variant with sunny, high-spirited or sometimes "depressed"?

What's the best way to end emails, especially at work?

With kind or best regards, you are on the safe side in professional e-mails.

“These are the two most neutral variants,” says coach and etiquette expert Elisabeth Bonneau.

If you are writing to an addressee for the first time and have not yet had a confidential or informal relationship with him, you would be better off using this variant - nowadays, by the way, without the "with" in front of the friendly greetings.

On the other hand, Bonneau advises against the often used best greetings: "They don't exist because there are no good greetings."

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On the other hand, those who open their e-mails should first say goodbye with loving or warm greetings - with the confidential "Dear" or a casual "Hello".

However, working people should best leave the step to this level to the interlocutor and then follow suit, advises Bonneau.

This is especially true when it comes to a manager or an important customer.

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Just no "good morning"

Adjectives or cute decorations are just as difficult: "Sporty greetings from sunny Munich", Bonneau gives an example.

Many try to give their emails a personal touch.

“But that usually goes wrong,” says the expert - just like a “good morning” greeting.

After all, the sender doesn't know when the recipient is reading the email.

What works against it, at least sometimes: E-Mails without salutation and greetings.

"And if you write back and forth for the eighth time a day, you can leave it out entirely or just quickly add" Greetings "and your abbreviation," she says.

In other countries this is common anyway: In English, for example, a simple “Hi” and a “Best” at the beginning and end of emails are often the highest of feelings.

And French is also much more informal than German, says Bonneau.

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This article was first published on 11/28/2017.