{"id":13549,"date":"2025-03-03T16:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/hegseth-directs-dod-civilian-workforce-to-comply-with-musks-doge-productivity-email\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:08:21","slug":"hegseth-directs-dod-civilian-workforce-to-comply-with-musks-doge-productivity-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/hegseth-directs-dod-civilian-workforce-to-comply-with-musks-doge-productivity-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth directs DOD civilian workforce to comply with Musk\u2019s DOGE productivity email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Department of Defense (DOD)&#8217;s civilian workforce to comply with Elon Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) productivity email, listing five things they accomplished after initially telling them not to reply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">On Sunday, Hegseth released a video message explaining the shift.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Our civilian patriots who dedicate themselves to defending this nation working for the Department of Defense are critical to our national security,&#8217; Hegseth said. &#8216;As we work to restore focus on DOD&#8217;s core warfighting mission under President Trump&#8217;s leadership, we recognize that we cannot accomplish that mission without the strong and important contributions of our civilian workforce.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who&#8217;s heading up DOGE, shared Hegseth&#8217;s video on X, writing, &#8216;Much appreciated @SecDef Hegseth!&#8217; He also included a saluting emoji and an American flag emoji.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hegseth signed a memorandum on Friday to all DOD civilian employees, ahead of an anticipated email expected to be sent from the DOD on Monday requesting the five bullet points of accomplishments.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth told employees to reply to the email within 48 hours and include their accomplishments and add their supervisors as recipients.<\/p>\n<p>He said in the video that the responses would be collected within the department to satisfy the requirement sent out by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).<\/p>\n<p>OPM sent an email last weekend, seeking the same five bullets, though the DOD\u2019s Office of Personnel and Readiness told its civilian workforce to ignore the request.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The DOD is taking a different approach to the request this week after working with OPM to get better guidance on what is expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Department of Defense initially paused this directive &#8230; but now requires all DOD civilian employees to submit five bullets on their previous week&#8217;s achievements,&#8217; Hegseth said in his memorandum.<\/p>\n<p>He told employees Monday&#8217;s email is something DOD employees should respond to, though responses should not include sensitive or classified information.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth also said non-compliance may lead to further review.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Department of Defense (DOD)&#8217;s civilian workforce to comply with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}