Federal employees again asked to report their activities at work – now on a weekly basis
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Federal employees at multiple government agencies are once again being told to report their work accomplishments over the past week to the Office of Personnel Management, according to a union source and several employees who received the Friday evening missives.
Federal employees at multiple government agencies are once again being told to report their work accomplishments over the past week to the Office of Personnel Management, according to a union source and several employees who received the Friday evening missives. The emails, titled “What did you do last week? Part II,” were sent to employees at the Bureau of Prisons, General Services Administration, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, OPM and the departments of Education and Veterans Affairs, among others, the sources said. CNN has viewed a number of the emails. Workers were again directed to reply to the email, which in nearly all cases originated from OPM’s new HR email address, with five bullet points of their accomplishments and to copy their managers. But this time, they were told that this will be a weekly requirement, due by 11:59 p.m. ET on Mondays. A similar mass email was sent without warning last Saturday to more than 2 million federal workers shortly after Elon Musk announced on X that employees would have to say what they did at work in the past week, warning, “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” They were given a deadline of 11:59 p.m. ET last Monday. That email request, which originated from OPM but did not include the threat of termination, sparked mass confusion and concern among workers and agencies. Several agencies, including the FBI and departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security and Energy, instructed their workers not to respond. Other agencies told staffers that replying was voluntary, while still others mandated that their employees comply. Just hours before the deadline, OPM provided guidance that responding to the email was voluntary.
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Federal employees at multiple government agencies are once again being told to report their work accomplishments over the past week to the Office of Personnel Management, according to a union source and several employees who received the Friday evening missives.
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