{"id":8120,"date":"2025-02-23T00:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T00:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/elon-musk-tells-federal-workers-to-detail-work-in-an-email-or-lose-their-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T00:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T00:50:41","slug":"elon-musk-tells-federal-workers-to-detail-work-in-an-email-or-lose-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/elon-musk-tells-federal-workers-to-detail-work-in-an-email-or-lose-their-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Tells Federal Workers to Detail Work in an Email or Lose Their Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elon Musk threw federal workers into further confusion and alarm on Saturday when he ordered them to summarize their accomplishments for the week, warning that a failure to do so would be taken as a resignation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Shortly after his demand, which he posted on X, civil servants across the government received an email from the Office of Personnel Management with the subject line, \u201cWhat did you do last week?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The missive simultaneously hit inboxes across multiple agencies, rattling workers who had been rocked by layoffs in recent weeks and were unsure about whether to respond to Mr. Musk\u2019s demand. His mounting pressure on the federal work force came at the encouragement of President Trump, who has been trumpeting how the billionaire has upended the bureaucracy and on Saturday urged him to be even \u201cmore aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his post on X, Mr. Musk said employees who failed to answer the message would lose their jobs. However, that threat was not stated in the email itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPlease reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished this week and cc your manager,\u201d said the Office of Personnel Management message that went out to federal employees on Saturday afternoon. The email told employees to respond by midnight on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The email was received by workers across the government, including at the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Personnel Management, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to copies seen by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some agency leaders welcomed Mr. Musk\u2019s move. \u201cDOGE and Elon are doing great work! Historic. We are happy to participate,\u201d Ed Martin, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/17\/us\/politics\/ed-martin-us-attorney-washington.html\" title=\"\">the interim U.S. attorney<\/a> for Washington, D.C., whom Mr. Trump has nominated to run the office on a permanent basis, wrote in a message to his staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rank-and-file workers reacted differently. One staff member at the National Institutes of Health, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, said she was shocked by the message, which she said left her with a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach. When she found out more of the context, she said, she messaged a colleague: \u201cThey\u2019re terrorizing us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In response to Mr. Musk\u2019s demand, the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, said it would challenge any \u201cunlawful\u201d terminations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOnce again, Elon Musk and the Trump administration have shown their utter disdain for federal employees and the critical services they provide to the American people,\u201d Everett Kelley, the union\u2019s president, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is cruel and disrespectful,\u201d he said, \u201cto hundreds of thousands of veterans who are wearing their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The message was likely to face legal challenges, experts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is zero basis in the civil service system for this,\u201d said Sam Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan and a former general counsel to the Office of Management and Budget. \u201cThis is obviously designed to intimidate employees. Musk and DOGE and the Trump administration are persistently acting in a way that disregards civil service rules and they are just counting on the courts not being able to catch up and clean up after them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are counting on employees saying, \u2018This is too much, I can\u2019t keep doing this,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The message questioning workers\u2019 output repeated a tactic Mr. Musk used to cull the work force at his social media company. He has repeatedly drawn inspiration from his 2022 takeover of X, then known as Twitter, as he works to overhaul the federal government with his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. With the support of the Trump administration, Mr. Musk has ordered layoffs across the federal government and effectively shuttered several agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cElon is doing a great job, but I would like to see him be more aggressive,\u201d Mr. Trump said in a post Saturday on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk quickly accepted the challenge. \u201cAll federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,\u201d Mr. Musk wrote in a social media post on Saturday, saying his actions were \u201cconsistent\u201d with the president\u2019s demands. \u201cFailure to respond will be taken as a resignation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the email to federal workers, and whether workers would be fired if they did not reply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Office of Personnel Management, which also sent Mr. Musk\u2019s deferred resignation offer to employees, with the subject line \u201cFork in the Road,\u201d last month, also sidestepped the question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAs part of the Trump administration\u2019s commitment to an efficient and accountable federal work force, O.P.M. is asking employees to provide a brief summary of what they did last week by the end of Monday, cc\u2019ing their manager,\u201d McLaurine Pinover, a spokeswoman for the agency, said in a statement on Saturday. \u201cAgencies will determine any next steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The demand left many workers reeling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most of the C.F.P.B.\u2019s work force had recently been placed on leave as Mr. Musk gutted the agency, and have been instructed not to work \u2014 leaving them with no accomplishments to report, a worker there said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk\u2019s allies in government have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/03\/technology\/musk-allies-ai-government.html\" title=\"\">suggested using artificial intelligence<\/a> to identify budget cuts, and workers at several agencies worried their responses would be assessed by A.I.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The approach echoed one Mr. Musk took with executives and employees at Twitter. In April 2022, Mr. Musk was set to join the board at the social media company, but bickered with Parag Agrawal, its chief executive at the time, over his public criticism of the company. When Mr. Agrawal asked Mr. Musk not to post detrimental things about Twitter, Mr. Musk responded in a text, \u201cWhat did you get done this week?\u201d and then told Mr. Agrawal he would buy Twitter outright.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The exchange led to Mr. Musk\u2019s $44 billion takeover of the company, which he completed in October 2022. Mr. Musk claimed he fired Mr. Agrawal immediately, although Mr. Agrawal contested the circumstances of his departure and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/04\/technology\/twitter-executives-sue-musk.html\" title=\"\">sued Mr. Musk<\/a> for withholding severance payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Shortly after the acquisition, Mr. Musk told employees to print out code they had written recently \u2014 an exercise intended to prove how hard they worked. When executives at the company raised privacy concerns, Mr. Musk instructed employees to shred the code they had printed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Saturday, Mr. Musk acknowledged the similarities. \u201cParag got nothing done. 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