Over the weekend, Elon Musk posted on X that all federal employees will soon receive an email requesting what they accomplished last week. This inference implied resignation for noncompliance, which created considerable confusion across the federal sector.
Agencies, including the Justice Department, the FBI, the State Department, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, advised their employees to ignore the request.
Other federal organizations, including the Transportation Department, the Education Department, the Department of Commerce, and the National Transportation Safety Board, told their workers they should comply.
OPM sent another memo to agency heads stating, "Agencies should consider whether the expectation for employees to submit activity and/or accomplishment bullets should be integrated into the agency’s Weekly Activity Report or future required organizational activity reporting in order to provide [sic] an enterprise-wide view of workforce achievements and organizational trends. “Furthermore, agencies should consider any appropriate actions regarding employees who fail to respond to activity / accomplishment requests. It is agency leadership’s decision as to what actions are taken.”