The Defense Department revised its guidance on requiring employees to provide feedback on what they accomplished during their work week. The Pentagon’s Office of Personnel and Readiness initially directed workers to ignore an accountability measure the Trump administration launched last month at the recommendation of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The pushback from appointees of President Donald Trump marked a new level of chaos and confusion within the beleaguered federal workforce

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told civilian employees to comply with a request to provide five bullet points of accomplishments.

Federal workers received a second round of emails Friday asking them to report their work accomplishments even after a slew of federal agencies pushed back against the White House’s first round of mass emails,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all civilian Pentagon employees to respond to an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) email demanding to know what they accomplished the week prior. Hegseth’s directive comes after Pentagon officials previously instructed Department of Defense employees not to respond to a Feb.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth changed course Monday when he told the Pentagon's civilian workforce to respond to an email from the Office of Personnel Management. When the OPM email first came asking federal workers what they accomplished last week,