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.”
On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth added to guidance he issued last week, instructing the department’s roughly 760,000 civilian employees to send five bullet points about their weekly ...
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 ...
“Whether bullet points, numbered lists, or those little 4-point diamond thingies, Leidos will continue to lead from the front in next-gen listocology.” The OPM email, spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, was sent to all federal employees last weekend, demanding a bulleted response by 11:59 pm on Monday.
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.
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. ,
Federal employees hit a snag on March 24 when they received a notice from the original OPM-provided email address stating the “mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” OPM provided another email address for federal employees to send their five-bullet-point emails. USDA employees have ‘no reasonable expectation of privacy’
Late Friday night, federal employees received a second email asking them to share five bullet points on their accomplishments last week. It's the latest in an effort led by Trump advisor Elon Musk ...
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 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.
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
A Food and Drug Administration employee sends in the same vague but accurate five bullets each week. His agency is requiring responses, but he is determined not to reveal confidential information ...
In case you have not been following the news, all federal employees must now submit 5 bullet points to some email address and that will likely become a weekly requirement. If a federal employee asks leadership why this is being done or why it’s necessary on top of existing one-on-ones and reporting, they get no answer.
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 generally from my first job there in 1975 until the present time.
As a special government employee, Musk is only legally allowed to work for the Trump administration for 130 days a year.Still, the federal workers BI spoke with said they expect him to continue ...
After submitting their weekly "5 Things" email on Monday, some federal employees received an automated response from an OPM email address stating, "The recipient's mailbox is full and can't accept ...
The Office of Personnel Management sent an email to all federal employees on Saturday asking them to list five bullet points describing what they accomplished in the past week, according to ...
“Unlike the ‘5 bullets’ this is not a strong encouragement. All employees are required to submit this daily information,” read an email to election commission staff.