Dear IAM Federal Sector Members,
Much of our federal membership has reported receiving an email titled “What did you do last week?” from a U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) email address, hr@opm.org. The email asks all federal employees to respond by the end of day on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 with five bullets points on what they did last week. Separately, Elon Musk posted on X that a failure to respond would be considered a resignation, though the OPM message itself does not contain this threat, nor is there any known authority for Mr. Musk to make this claim.
The IAM asks our federal worker membership to consider the following:
- Follow guidance from your department, agency and/or supervisor as to whether and how to respond. Several agencies have told their employees not to respond, while others have said guidance is still forthcoming.
- If your agency says you should respond, you should do so and highlight the tremendous work you do on behalf of the American people. Be sure you do not include sensitive, restricted, or classified information unless specifically directed to do so by your department, agency, and/or supervisor.
- If your agency has not provided you guidance, here is a draft email you may wish to send to your supervisor:
Dear Supervisor,
I received the below email from a sender that was not within the agency or in my chain of command. Please provide me guidance on whether I am required to respond, and if so, how I should respond, by the end of my tour of duty on Monday. Please make sure to inform me of the type of information I should include in my response. If I am required to respond, I will. I will assume that I have no obligation to respond to the email unless instructed to do so.
The IAM will continue to monitor this development, as well as all changes affecting our federal sector membership.
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