- The OPM of the Trump administration and e -mailed federal employees again to request a list of performance.
- The newest Email says that employees in the future complete a productivity summary every week.
- Federal employees who have shared the e -mail with BI, said that the doubling is “crazy” and “furious”.
Federal employees in different authorities receive again e -mails to ask them to describe what they have done in the past week.
The second e-mail, received by federal employees on Friday evening, promises weekly check-ins in the future. Elon Musk, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, who is closely linked to the White House office, hinted that this came after doubling the e-mail check this week.
“Answer this e -mail with about 5 bullets that describe what you achieved last week and CC your manager,” reads the e -mail, rated by Business Insider. “Complete the above task every week by Monday at 11:59 PM.”
Federal employees of agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs received the e -mail from the Office of Personnel Management around 9 p.m.
Representatives of the White House and the Office of Personnel Management did not immediately respond to requests for comments from Business Insider.
“Nuts. They did it again,” an employee of the Ministry of Education told Business Insider after receiving the E -mail.
Federal employees who have spoken with Business Insider have expressed frustration about the e -mails of OPM, which bypass the command structure of each office and will be sent during the late or weekend hours.
The heads of different agencies have offered different guidelines on how their employees should respond, with at least eight offices, including the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who rather tell employees that they do not have to respond to the Emails of Doge.
On Monday, Musk said that employees who had not yet responded to the e -mail would get “another chance”, but “not responding a second time would lead to termination.”
Less than half of the federal workforce responded to the first e -mail, the White House said Tuesday.
The productivity tracking e-mails, sent for the first time in the afternoon of 22 February of an HR account in the Personnel Management Office, followed President Donald TrumpThe request for musk “become more aggressive“With Doge’s budget reductions and dismissals. The e -mails are among the last of the radical initiatives of the office that have resulted in Mass” Financing breaksAnd Work stoppages In departments and agencies in the federal government.
Musk had plagued that the e -mails in a message would come on X and write: “It will not respond as a dismissal”, but the e -mails received by employees have not described any possible consequences for not answering the deadline. The e -mail sent on Friday evening also did not report those consequences.
The e -mail has two important differences compared to that last weekend: it makes it clear that the request for performance is underway and stipulates that employees who work with sensitive information do not have to respond to specific tasks.
“If all your activities are classified or sensitive, write:” All my activities are sensitive “,” reads Friday -E -mail.
A nurse who collaborates with the Department of Veterans Affairs told Business Insider said that the e -mails are ‘furious’, and added that they had responded to the latter after installing a reading confirmation tracker on their e -mails. Their first reaction is still not even open, they said.
“They are such cowards,” said the nurse. “Nobody has the guts to sign their name on this, and we are expected to respond to a face -free entity as if we are screaming in a void. It does not come from my supervisor or someone in my actual command structure, just another generic ‘HR’ -e -mail without responsibility.”
Other federal employees who spoke with Business Insider previously said they are considering stopping instead of dealing with the e -mails and conflicting guidelines on how to respond to them.
The Ministry of Education’s employee said they are looking for a new job, but have difficulty finding work, because so many federal employees recently have no work in the area where they live. As a single parent with double citizenship, the Ministry of Education employee said she is considering moving abroad with their children.
Earlier Friday, employees of the Ministry of Education received a buy -out offer “prior to a very important reduction in strength”, according to an E -mail assessed by Business Insider. Employees who have worked in the department for at least 3 years were offered $ 25,000 in addition to any pension funds for which they are eligible. Interested employees have until 11:59 PM et on March 3 to accept the offer.
And on Thursday a memo was seen by Business Insider sent to employees in the Social Security Administration Offering voluntary early retirement as part of a “restructuring that will be considerable Employee reductions. “
President Donald Trump’s government officially announced her plan for federal personnel reductions in a Wednesday memo, and told agencies to prepare to reduce staff and reorganize their departments by March 13.
The Ministry of Education’s employee said that they would “probably not” take the buy -out offer, and added that “it is crazy to give people exactly the weekend to think about it.”
“I don’t trust anything that these people do,” the employee of the Ministry of Education told BI.
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