Elon Musk has informed federal employees that they will need to begin summarizing their accomplishments each week or face losing their jobs.
An email sent to federal employees across various departments on Saturday read, “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished this week and cc your manager.”
In a post made to X, Musk added, “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
Later on X, Musk insisted it would take employees less than five minutes to complete.
“To be clear, the bar is very low here. An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable! Should take less than 5 mins to write,” Musk wrote.
“A large number of good responses have been received already. These are the people who should be considered for promotion,” he wrote in a follow-up post.
The deadline for the email assignment is 11:59 p.m. Monday.
The directive, however, apparently does not extend to FBI employees.
Newly sworn-in FBI director Kash Patel sent an email instructing agency staffers to “pause any responses” they may have been working on following Musk’s request.
The email, obtained by NBC, reads, “FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information. The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures. When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses.”
Musk used the same tactic to clean house following his takeover at Twitter, now X—something Musk acknowledged in a follow-up tweet that read, “Parag got nothing done. Parag was fired.”
Parag refers to Twitter’s former CEO Parag Agrawal, who was let go soon after Musk’s acquisition of the site.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) released a statement confirming they would be challenging any unlawful terminations.
“Once 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,” wrote AFGE national president Everett Kelley, who described the move as “cruel and disrespectful.”
