The emails require federal employees to respond by 11:59 p.m. Monday, according to reports. Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk says every federal employee will receive an email asking what they accomplished this week — and that those who fail to respond will be considered as having resigned.
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The deadline given, according to emails reviewed by Reuters, is 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday. Musk famously asked the same question of former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (whom he later fired) while scheming to buy the social media site in 2022. “I’d like the company to get to a place where we are more resilient and don’t get distracted, but we aren’t there right now,” Agrawal told Musk.
“What did you get done this week?” Musk fired back. DOGE is slashing jobs across federal agencies. Tens of thousands of probationary employees — those who were hired less than a year ago — have lost their jobs in recent weeks as part of the agency’s work.
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