The Workplace of Personnel Administration on Monday night issued new written steerage on Elon Musk’s e-mail order, only a few hours forward of the preliminary midnight deadline for staff to answer.
The brand new course seems to provide company leaders the flexibility to exempt personnel from responding in addition to take “acceptable actions” on non-responses.

A view reveals the emblem of the Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM), after probationary employees on the OPM have been fired in a convention name and given lower than an hour to go away the constructing, outdoors OPM in Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2025.
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“Businesses ought to assessment responses and consider nonresponses, contemplating such components as whether or not the worker was on excused go away on Monday, February 24, 2025 or had entry to e-mail on that date,” the memo reads.
“Moreover, companies ought to contemplate any acceptable actions relating to workers who fail to reply to exercise/accomplishment requests. It’s company management’s resolution as to what actions are taken,” the memo provides.
-ABC Information’ Ben Siegel