(Gray News) – Elon Musk is giving federal workers “another chance” to justify their jobs in an email or be fired.
The original deadline for federal workers to respond to an email with the subject, “What did you do last week?” with five bullet points about what they had accomplished passed Monday night.
“Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance,” Musk said Monday evening on X. “Failure to respond a second time will result in termination.”
Musk did not provide a new deadline.
Employees at multiple federal agencies including the Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, State Department and Department of Energy had been told to disregard the email.
The email was sent to more than two million federal employees from the Office of Personnel Management on Saturday. Musk said on X Saturday that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
President Donald Trump spoke about the email Monday telling reporters, “If people don’t respond, it’s very possible that there is no such person or they’re not working.”
According to NBC, the Department of Government Efficiency will feed the emails to an artificial intelligence system to determine if the jobs are necessary.
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