OPM Tells Federal Agencies That Employee Response to Its Mass Email Is Voluntary

Federal agencies have been notified by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that their employees can choose to respond or ignore an email asking them to report what they did in the past week to their manager, according to an internal email sent to employees on Monday.
According to the internal email seen by The Epoch Times, employees were told that the OPM has clarified that any response to an email titled, “What did you do last week,” is voluntary and not responding to it “will not be considered a resignation.”
The guidance came after Elon Musk, who is leading the Trump administration’s efforts in cutting government spending, said in a Feb. 23 post on social media platform X that federal workers will be required to respond to an email asking them about the work they completed in the past week and failure to respond would be taken as resignation….