The Office of Personnel Management on Monday evening issued new written guidance on Elon Musk’s email order, just a few hours ahead of the initial midnight deadline for workers to reply.
The new direction appears to give agency leaders the ability to exempt personnel from responding as well as take “appropriate actions” on non-responses.
A view shows the logo of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), after probationary staff at the OPM were fired in a conference call and given less than an hour to leave the building, outside OPM in Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2025.
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“Agencies should review responses and evaluate nonresponses, considering such factors as whether the employee was on excused leave on Monday, February 24, 2025 or had access to email on that date,” the memo reads.
“Furthermore, agencies should consider any appropriate actions regarding employees who fail to respond to activity/accomplishment requests. It is agency leadership’s decision as to what actions are taken,” the memo adds.
-ABC News’ Ben Siegel
