A second email requesting federal employees to submit a list of weekly accomplishments has been sent, raising concerns about cybersecurity and the origin of the communication.
An email requesting five bullet points of weekly accomplishments was sent to federal workers for a second time, according to the AP. The origin of the email varied between agencies - some received the email titled “What did you do last week? Part II” from “hr@opm.gov,” the same OPM address that sent the first version, others said the email was sent from an internal address. The communication instructs recipients to “reply to this email with approx.
5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and cc your manager,” AP writes. The second email dictates employees should plan to submit a weekly response on Mondays by 11:59 ET. Morgan Saladino, formerly employed in Alaska at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a Fisheries Biologist, was fired on Feb. 27. Saladino said she’s been locked out of her work accounts and didn’t receive the most recent email but was sent the first version before she was terminated. She said when she first read the email, it seemed suspicious. “It’s crazy because you don’t know who these emails are coming from, and we take a lot of cyber security training within the federal government,” Saladino said. “So alarm alarm bells are going off, as this is an e-mail that - based on our training and our cybersecurity training - we should not be responding to.” On Feb. 22, Elon Musk, who has been at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency, said in a tweet, “the bar is very low here. An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable! Should take less than 5 mins to write.” Responses to the email have varied, according to the White House less than half of federal workers replied. While OPM acts as the human resources department for the federal government, it cannot dismiss employees outside the agency. During the first wave of emails, several agencies directed their employees not to respond for security purposes, which was Saladino’s experience. “Our supervisors emailed us pretty soon after that and said, ‘Wait till Monday. We will give you guidance on whether or not to respond to this e-mail, and if we do have to respond to this e-mail, we’re going to coordinate some way to do that,’ ” Saladino said. The second iteration of the email viewed late Friday by AP reads, in part: “If all of your activities are classified or sensitive, please write, ‘All of my activities are sensitive.’
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