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Fortune
Sasha Rogelberg

Elon Musk's directive to federal workers to explain their productivity or get the ax could take them 165,000 hours of their workdays to complete

Elon Muks, in sunglasses and a black MAGA hat, shrugs as he sits in front of a blue CPAC background. (Credit: Jason C. Andrew/Bloomberg—Getty Images)
  • An email from the Office of Personnel Management on Saturday asked federal workers to list their accomplishments from the week prior, part of Elon Musk’s efforts to assess government productivity. Management professor Peter Harms said the strategy, without a transparent purpose, could be a waste of time.

A directive to hold federal employees accountable for their weekly productivity could be taking up hundreds of thousands of hours of their workdays.

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