OPM Tells Federal Agencies That Employee Response to Its Mass Email Is Voluntary

An administration official told The Epoch Times that it was an agency decision whether a response to the email was voluntary.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington on Feb. 14, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Federal agencies have been notified by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that their employees can choose to respond or ignore an email asking them to report what they did in the past week to their manager, according to an internal email sent to employees on Monday.

According to the internal email seen by The Epoch Times, employees were told that the OPM has clarified that any response to an email titled, “What did you do last week,” is voluntary and not responding to it “will not be considered a resignation.”