Elon Musk offers federal employees 2nd 'chance' to report work

​​​​​​​By Yasin Gungor

ISTANBUL (AA) - Elon Musk announced that federal employees who failed to respond to an email requesting details of their work from the previous week will be given a second chance.

“Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance,” Musk wrote Monday on X. However, he warned that a second failure to respond would result in termination.

The move is part of President Donald Trump’s broader efforts to streamline the federal government’s operations and reduce spending.

Musk, a business magnate and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has significant power to reduce the 2.3 million federal workforce.

In an X post last week, he stated that all federal employees will be sent an e-mail about what they did the previous week and if they do not respond, they would be considered to have resigned.

Several agencies, including the Justice Department, the FBI and the Pentagon, instructed employees to ignore Musk’s request.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – the government’s human resources department -- has since directed agencies to handle the matter internally, leaving decisions to individual departments.