Dear AFGE Member,

Many of you have already received, or will soon receive, another email titled "What did you do last week Part II?" This email may come from a U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) email address, [email protected], or from your agency directly. The email requests federal employees to respond with approximately five bullet points detailing their work over the past week. The email also may ask employees to report their weekly activities each Monday by 11:59pm ET. No explanation has been provided regarding how this information will be used or why it is being requested.

AFGE strongly believes that OPM lacks the authority to direct the assignment of work to agency employees in this manner. In the meantime, AFGE continues to advise all federal employees to seek guidance from their supervisor on whether and how to respond, including the type of information that may be disseminated to OPM.

If you received the email directly from your agency, you should comply consistent with the email, unless directed otherwise. If you received the email from OPM, you should comply if directed by your supervisor or other agency management in your chain of command, consistent with any guidance provided by your agency. If your agency has informed you that you should not respond, you should comply with that directive. Similarly, if you have not received any guidance from your agency, we reiterate our advice from last weekend that you should ask your supervisor whether you should respond and, if so, how. Until you receive a response or other agency directive to respond, we do not believe you have any obligation to respond to an email from OPM.

AFGE will continue to monitor the situation and provide further updates as necessary. Separate guidance for local leaders will be issued on Monday.

In solidarity,

Everett Kelley

AFGE National President

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