- An email was sent to federal workers on Saturday with a request to include productivity details from their week.
- Elon Musk said that those who do not respond by 11:59 pm on Monday will lose their role.
- Several federal employees told BI that they are frustrated by the request. Some have already been told not to respond.
Many federal workers have told Business Insider that they are frustrated and afraid of their jobs after Elon Musk said they had to email their work achievements or risk losing their jobs.
Some say they are skeptical of repercussions – others were told not to respond.
The email to track productivity, which was sent on Saturday afternoon from the Human Resources Account at the Personnel Management Office, followed President Donald Trump’s education to Musk to “Get more aggressive“In reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy. It is the latest Doug’s full initiatives that led to group shooting, stopping funding, and stopping work in departments and agencies throughout the federal government.
Musk, which is closely related to the DOGE office, has disturbed that the email will be imminent in a post at X Saturday, and writes: “The failure in the response will be considered resignation.”
“It is a terrible matter,” said one of the employees of the Ministry of Education, whose work slowed through executive orders and the demobilization of workers. “It seems to be a harassment, especially sending it on Saturday and boasting about it X so that everyone can check their e -mail in the afternoon in anticipation of its arrival.”
“They can only imagine the number of people who will shoot on the basis of responses/non-correspondence on this,” said another federal employee-from the centers of diseases control and prevention.
Another asked, “How much money is lost” on the response of federal employees to the email, while asking another who will review the responses.
White House representatives and employee management office did not respond immediately to the suspension requests from Business Insider.
Several federal workers who spoke with BI said hours after sending an e -mail, they did not receive any contact from the supervisors of how to respond or whether to respond.
One of the federal workers told BI: “There is no idea how to respond because this is from outside our leadership chain.”
Others said they had obtained instructions by union representatives or managers to wait for more guidance before the response.
“Once again, the agencies were arrested from these emails, just like the chaotic thorn” on the road, “the National Treasury employees Union wrote in an email to its members, and urged them not to respond until they receive more guidance.” This email is Another attempt by the administration to intimidate the diligent civil service employees who provide the American people every day. It is shameful. We will update you soon. “
The American Federation of government employees said in a notice of members that the union “strongly believes that this e -mail has been sent illegally and that OPM lacks the authority to direct the task of working to the agency’s employees in this way.”
“We will formally ask OPM to cancel the email and clarify under the authority released.” “Meanwhile, AFGE recommends all federal employees to redirect e -mail to the supervisor and search for guidelines about whether the response is and how to respond, including the type of information that can be published on OPM.”
The email of productivity that was sent to federal workers did not include Musk’s comment on X that employees who did not respond by the deadline on Monday night would be considered resignation. Many workers who saw his position said they wondered whether possible – or legally.
“I am wondering whether they are shooting on people based on not responding to this?” Said the employee of the Ministry of Education. “There are a number of agencies, such as the Ministry of Justice, which has the privilege of the client lawyer, or the Ministry of National Security, which participate with national security issues, where supervisors will definitely inform people of not responding.”
Some federal workers who spoke to Business Insider have decided not to respond. Others, who are frustrated by aggressive financing and the reduction of jobs paid by the Doug office, said that they started searching for another job even if they did not believe that they will be separated.
A member of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team at the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, and part -time disaster who respond to federal disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes, suggested that they may resign in any of the two directions.
“I have another job like us and I do not need this type of tension,” said a DMAT member. “Maybe I will only resign.”
The employee said they are part of a group of people who flourish “in stressful situations”, but the pressure of their job in folding “different”.
