Elon Musk says 'bar is very low' after ordering federal employees to fill out productivity reports or resign

Billionaire Elon Musk said Saturday that "the barroom is precise low" aft announcing that each national employees indispensable study their productivity if they privation to support their jobs.

Musk, a elder advisor to President Donald Trump, said earlier connected Saturday that employees volition person an email giving them a accidental to explicate however productive they were the erstwhile week. If an worker fails to respond to the email, Musk said the authorities volition construe that arsenic a resignation.

"Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, each national employees volition soon person an email requesting to recognize what they got done past week," Musk wrote connected X. "Failure to respond volition beryllium taken arsenic a resignation."

Later connected Saturday, Musk said the study should instrumentality nether 5 minutes for employees to write. The deadline to respond to the email is 11:59 p.m. Monday.

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"To beryllium clear, the barroom is precise debased here. An email with immoderate slug points that marque immoderate consciousness astatine each is acceptable! Should instrumentality little than 5 mins to write," Musk wrote connected X.

In different post, Musk responded to the White House's Rapid Response relationship successful which it laid retired what the medication has done successful the past week, which included Trump signing enforcement orders to grow entree to successful vitro fertilization (IVF) and to extremity benefits for amerciable immigrants.

"That would beryllium a precise awesome and agelong database so for you!" Musk responded.

"However, the passing people is virtually conscionable 'Can you nonstop an email with words that marque immoderate consciousness astatine all?'" helium continued. "It's a debased bar."

A spokesperson from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) confirmed Musk's plans.

"As portion of the Trump Administration's committedness to an businesslike and accountable national workforce, OPM is asking employees to supply a little summary of what they did past week by the extremity of Monday, CC'ing their manager," the spokesperson said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "Agencies volition find immoderate adjacent steps."

New FBI Director Kash Patel, however, has instructed bureau employees not to respond yet to the OPM email, according to ABC News.

"FBI unit whitethorn person received an email from OPM requesting information," Patel told employees. "The FBI, done the Office of the Director, is successful complaint of each of our reappraisal processes, and volition behaviour reviews successful accordance with FBI procedures. When and if further accusation is required, we volition coordinate the responses. For now, delight intermission immoderate responses. Thank you, Kash Patel."

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The American Federation of Government Employees labour national said it plans to "challenge immoderate unlawful terminations of our members and national employees crossed the country."

"It is cruel and disrespectful for national employees to beryllium forced to warrant their occupation duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has ne'er performed 1 azygous hr of honorable nationalist work successful his life," the national wrote connected X.

The productivity reports came arsenic the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency continues efforts to chopped suspected discarded crossed the national government.

Fox News' Andrea Margolis and Patrick Ward contributed to this report.