How to Handle Assigning Deals when Deal Owners are Out of Office

Has anyone found a good way to managing assigning deals via automation when the deal owner that would typically be assigned is out of the office? It’s not practical to change the deal owner in the automation to someone else for only while they are out. The only thing I’ve thought of so far is adding the manager to the deal notification email, but that feels like too many notifications for them to be on.