Federal workers faced conflicting guidance from the president, their agencies and union leaders around a request to detail their professional accomplishments over the past week.

Individual federal agencies will handle what actions to take against employees who did not respond to an email asking them to detail what they accomplished during the prior work week.

Elon Musk posted Saturday on his social media site that failure to reply to the email would be taken as a resignation.

Going forward, the emails will be required on a weekly basis. Those who work on classified and sensitive projects can respond to say they can't disclose the details of their work.

Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to describe what they did last week — as Elon Musk warned on social media that, if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation.

Departments with sensitive or confidential tasks, such as the FBI or Pentagon, initially told employees to ignore the order from DOGE and OPM.

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,