One federal employee reported using ChatGPT to generate 'word salad each week'
Federal employees in the United States are reportedly non-compliant with Elon Musk's order to send five accomplishments a week, with some not taking the instruction seriously.
Musk instructed federal employees back in February to list five of their accomplishments a week and send them to their higher-ups, and that failure to do so would mean resignation.
The instruction came at the height of Musk's campaign under the US Department of Government Efficiency to downsize the federal workforce and cut spending.
But The Washington Post reported that Musk's instruction was not met with the expected compliance from the federal workforce.
Some employees, particularly within the Defence Department, were reportedly sending an altered version of a copied-and-pasted piece of text weekly.
In the Department of Housing and Urban Development, one employee was even reported using ChatGPT to generate "10 to 20 pages of word salad each week" to send as accomplishments, according to The Post.
The White House has since clarified that Cabinet secretaries could decide whether their employees had to send their weekly accomplishments.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which functions as the federal government's HR department, also said Musk's instruction was voluntary and that non-compliance would not result in termination.
The OPM even noted during a meeting among chief human capital officers from across government offices that it would not provide guidance to other departments about the emails.
In fact, notes obtained by The Washington Post revealed that OPM has "no plans" on what to do with the information they gathered from employees' weekly emails.
Several agencies have already stopped asking for employees' weekly accomplishments, such as the National Institutes of Health, which noted that it "manages its own performance review processes and will notify employees directly if any information related to work duties or performance is needed," The Post reported.
The Environmental Protection Agency also told employees in March that the weekly accomplishment emails would be "encouraged, but optional."
There are agencies, however, that have pushed through with the policy, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Post's findings come amid reports that Musk is planning on departing the government later this year.
US President Donald Trump even recently told Air Force One earlier this month that "Elon's gotta have to leave" in what he thinks is a "few months," CBS News reported.
Vice-President JD Vance then told Fox News that Musk will "continue to be an adviser" even after he leaves.
"The work of DOGE is not even close to done. The work of Elon is not even close to done," Vance said as quoted by CBS.
