How to Summarize Government Work in Five Easy Bullets
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.”
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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.
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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.
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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. ,
5 Bullet Points
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.
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“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.
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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’
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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.
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The initial email, reviewed by The Hill, told federal employees to “please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullet points of what you accomplished last week.”
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The Office of Personnel Management (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 employees received state the deadline to respond is not until Monday. The email does not threaten termination or implied resignation, however, Elon Musk ...
How to Summarize Government Work in Five Easy Bullets
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
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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.
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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 ...
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How To Summarize Government Work In Five Easy Bullets
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.
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Workers were again directed to reply to the email, which in nearly all cases originated from OPM’s new HR email address, with five bullet points of their accomplishments and to copy their ...
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The Office of Personnel Management sent out a new email over the weekend that once again asked federal workers to send five bullet points on what they did last week. CBS News White House reporter ...
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“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.