DOGE leader Elon Musk says workers should respond to the email or it will be seen as a resignation, but also says workers who respond could be promoted.
An email has been sent out to federal employees asking what they did in the past week as tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is involved in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggested that those who don’t respond could face consequences.
Musk, an adviser to President Donald Trump, wrote on social media that if federal workers do not reply to the email, it will be seen as a resignation.
“All federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk wrote on X Saturday. “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
OPM Confirms EmailFederal employees—including some judges, court staff, and federal prison officials—received a three-line email with this instruction: “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.”
McLaurine Pinover, a spokesperson at the Office of Personnel Management, confirmed the directive and said that individual agencies would “determine any next steps.”
Pinover added that individual agencies would also look into how to proceed if a worker