The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently sent a controversial email to federal employees, demanding they account for their work activities from the past week by Monday at 11:59 p.m. ET. This directive emerged following a social media post by Elon Musk,

The message appears to contradict recent guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which told agency leaders Monday afternoon that employee response to the initial email was not mandatory and that failure to do so would not be considered a resignation.

The Department of Defense has instructed its personnel not to respond to a request from the Office of Personnel Management asking for a list of five things they accomplished in the last week. Federal workers across several agencies received an email from OPM asking them to document five things they accomplished in the past week,