Federal workers are still sending largely pointless emails detailing the five things they did the previous week, even though the mastermind behind the idea, Elon Musk, has left his government role.
Staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Social Security Administration are among those still dutifully submitting the updates Musk demanded under threat of termination for noncompliance, Axios reported.
Musk’s idea arrived as he was making mass cuts and firings as part of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) mandate. The weekly “accomplishments” emails were widely mocked, and in some agencies, flat-out ignored at the time.
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