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It was reported this weekend that all federal employees received an e-mail from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) telling employees to report “five bullets about what you did last week ...

It was reported this weekend that all federal employees received an e-mail from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) telling employees to report “five

And now, it seems as though OPM has gotten some of the agency heads to agree to order their agency employees to respond to the five bullets email weekly - due every Monday by 11:59 PM. It would appear that they instructed the agency heads to make this demand because of the legal issues surrounding OPM ordering it or taking personnel action ...

Some federal agencies, including NASA, pushed back on the directive. But last week, NASA released an official app for its civil servants to submit weekly “5 things” bullet points. “This tool is internal to NASA and restricted to civil servant use only,” NASA’s CIO, Jeff Seaton, assured employees.

The “five things I did this week” email just became a weekly task for Defense civilians. On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth added to guidance he issued last week, instructing the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum to all Defense Department civilian employees directing them to prepare five bullet points detailing their work accomplishments from the prior week.

The OPM order conformed with a demand from President Donald Trump’s adviser, Elon Musk, that all federal employees describe their work or be fired. The HHS told its employees on Feb. 24 that it’s not mandatory for them to respond to the government-wide email. The HHS did not immediately respond to request for comment.

The White House said that approximately a million of the federal government’s over 2.3 million employees replied to the first email asking for five bullet points highlighting last week’s accomplishments. Summary. DOGE is moving too far and fast, as evident by the chaos surrounding it.

The concept of summarizing work activities in five bullet points has gained attention recently, especially within federal agencies. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has requested federal employees to submit "five bullets about what you did last week," with noncompliance potentially being interpreted as a resignation.

Limit to 2 pages, if possible (first inclination is to overwrite it – the more is better philosophy). Instead, (1) be concise, (2) Use Plain English, and (3) Use bullets, not lengthy paragraphs. Arrange by performance element. It is easier for the supervisor to link the accomplishments to each individual element. Describe the accomplishment.

Other government contractors are protesting the award, claiming their ability to write five bullet points in an email is three or four years ahead of the closest competitor. “Our AI-powered custom cloud app searches through 15 trillion possible bullet points to find the optimal bullets for each individual government employee,” said a Booz ...

DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency is in the headlines this week for its latest performance management tactic: asking federal employees to email 5 bullet points on their ...

The Friday update came ahead of a second email spearheaded by Elon Musk demanding federal workers provide a list of five bullet points recapping what they accomplished in the week prior.

On Saturday, OPM sent out an email asking federal government workers to “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.” ... (OPM) has sent out an email asking federal employees to respond with five bullet points regarding what they worked on last week. Most of the emails federal ...

15 thoughts on “ Five Bullet Points, Or Else ” Mike February 25, 2025 at 7:13 am. Now the OPM has issued further guidelines on what managers are supposed to do in terms of response, non-responses, and absences. We’re reaching millions of dollars of waste at this point. Probably could have kept a few more employees at the park service.

On Saturday, OPM sent an email to federal employees asking them to provide, by Monday at 11:59 p.m. EST, about five bullet points of work they performed in the previous week.

Most bullets are probably applicable across other federal programs and offices. I have pondered how a federal employee can summarize the past or any week in simple bullet form. Since the reported e-mail does not include details about how granular the report should be, the following bullets describe the work of employees in OCSPP, applicable ...

“Demanding federal employees to summarize their work week in five bullet points by Monday evening or face termination is a counterproductive distraction that OPM legally cannot even act on. Our government’s main mission is to serve the public and keep us safe, and unnecessarily terrorizing the two million workers responsible for this ...

In a briefing for top human resources officers across government held just two days after Musk’s directive went out to all federal employees on Feb. 22, the Office of Personnel Management said ...