PER MY LAST EMAIL

Musk Doubles Down On Justify-Your-Job Email Scheme

The first emails, sent out last week, sparked significant backlash.

After telling federal employees last week that they would need to send weekly emails summarizing their accomplishments at work, and sparking an avalanche of backlash, Elon Musk has doubled down, sending a second round of emails late Friday. According to a report from the Associated Press, despite speculation that the emails would be delivered in a different format this time around—sent from a different email address, with the request phrased differently—the emails came from the same Office of Personnel Management as last week’s, and included the same request asking government workers to, “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.” Workers are expected to respond to the emails by 11:59 p.m. ET. Less than half of all federal employees responded to last week’s emails, with many being told by their superiors to ignore them, including FBI employees under director Kash Patel.