On Friday, the staff in what was before US digital service And now is part of Elon MuskDoge's initiative met Stephanie Holmes, who claimed to be part of the Doge group and the new personnel representative of the staff.
During the meeting, starting at noon, dozens of USDS staff asked questions at Holmes related to last week “Fork on the road” The email provides federal staff to resign, according to the detailed documents about the Wired meeting and are certified by the sources of participation. Questions include issues from the future of the employee projects to whether the tasks return to the office will apply to the workers completely from afar, as well as the exact nature of the topic. The federal government is doing for employees.
Holmes, who did not answer immediately asking for a comment, could only answer a few questions. She said, when asked, that this proposal was legal, and then, we believe that this offer is legal, and can provide very few additional instructions beyond that. At a time, she was asked if there would be a more formal way to accept the acquisition rather than responding to an email with the resignation of refusal in the theme line. An employee expressed concern that external actors can email resignation on behalf of the employee by fake their email address.
I think that if people decide to go through a delayed resignation, there is a kind of practical agreement we signed, an employee said. Can we get a copy earlier to preview? Can we get a copy of the agreement if there is an agreement?
I don't know, I answered. However, will come back to that.
The confusion was given when February 6 appeared for federal workers to accept the agreement. In email – that is Very similar to a Musk sent a Twitter staff in 2022The sender, identified as the Human Resource Management Office (OPM), shows that workers who choose not to resign can still lose their jobs later. Holmes was asked if she could commit to a specific time to provide Doge workforce with additional details of delayed transactions.
No, Holm Holmes said. You know, I think the information you will have about this is available for you right now, and again, you will have to make personal decisions based on information available for you right now.
The same employee answered, saying that I apologize for the alternating, but there are many things that this room has made a conflict or challenge to understand me just wondering why you cannot commit to Provide those specific details immediately. “
Yes, I appreciate your question and I have no intention of repeating or seem to be a debate in any way, but again, I only encourage you not to lose the big picture here. , Mr. Hol Holmes said. The benefits of accepting resignation are that you will be guaranteed not to be reduced and you are exempted from the task of returning to the office. Therefore, I only encourage you to focus on the generous aspects of the incentive.
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On the first day of office, President Donald Trump Has signed an effective executive command to establish the Government's effective partOr Doge, by reorganizing the US digital services, an entity is in the President's executive office, as a US Doge service. Trump appointed Elon Musk as the head of Doge, which will take a long time to cut spending in government agencies. When published, Doge faced at least three lawsuits Its challenge is as a federal agency.
While Musk has installed the highest lieutenant lieutenant and is currently using it as a lever to execute control of the federal government, before the recent executive command, the Digital Service of Hoa The period is one small agency With about 200 employees. Its mission is to help remove functional dysfunction technology throughout the Government, to serve the ability to enter government agencies and access their software and technical systems.