Washington – Offices that asked federal workers to document five things It was achieved last week Despite the threat from Elon Musk, and despite the threat that rejected employees could lose their jobs, administrative officials said Monday that individual agencies could decide how to respond. .
The two officials call the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with the head of human capital of the federal agency to decide how they want to handle command employees they received on Saturday. He said there was.
A federal government employee received an email from OPM with the subject “What did you do last week?” This message was directed to respond with five examples of what they did in the past seven days without revealing the classified information. Musk, who leads government efficiency, known as Doge, said failure to respond to employees would be considered a resignation.
Emails will respond with a deadline of 11:59pm on Monday. President Trump publicly supported the White House efforts earlier that day.
The directives cause confusion, and some agencies have to deal with workers. Ministry of JusticeDirector of National Intelligence, FBI, State Department, Pentagram, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of National Intelligence.
Others, including the Transportation Bureau, the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce and the National Road Safety Commission, told their workers they should follow.
In a call with the agency on Monday, OPM was asked what was done with information already provided by employees who answered the email, according to sources familiar with the matter. OPM said it had no plans to do anything about the information, the source said.
Late Monday night, OPM’s notes were sent to the agency’s manager, and the original “What did you do last week?” email appeared to contradict previous guidance and to the email The answer stated that the copy sent to OPM must be sent to the agency head.
“Admins should review the response and evaluate non-response, considering whether employees are on vacation and whether they are unable to access emails before the deadline on Monday nights. ”, the memo said.
“The agency should integrate employee expectations to submit activities and/or achievement bullets into the agency’s weekly activity report or into future required organizational activity reports. It should be considered (sic) to provide a company-wide view of workforce outcomes and organizational trends. “Memo said. “In addition, the agency is appropriate regarding employees who do not respond to activities/fulfillment requests. “We need to consider actions that are the agency’s leadership decision on what actions are being taken.”
The memo did not acknowledge that some agent managers had instructed employees not to respond to emails.
