On Friday, employees of the former Digital service of the United States and is now part of Elon Muschus‘S Doge Initiative met with Stephanie Holmes, who identified as part of the Doge team and as the new HR representative of the staff.
During the entire meeting that started at lunch ET, dozens of USD employees have asked questions from Holmes in connection with the past week “Gabel in the street” E -Mail providers of the federal assistant “pushed resignation” according to documents, in which the discussions raised and confirmed by the sources present were described. The questions included topics that range from the future of personnel projects, whether the mandates of return to Office would apply to employees completely removed, as well as the exact type of offer that the Federal Government made employees.
Holmes – who did not answer a request for comments immediately – could only answer some of the questions in full. When she was asked that the offer was “lawful”, she later said: “We believe that the offer is lawful” and could also give little additional instructions. At some point she was asked if there would be a more formal way to accept the buyout than to respond to an e -mail with the word “resignation” in the subject line. An employee expressed concerns that external actors could send e -mails on behalf of the employees by falsifying their e -mail addresses.
“I assume that if people choose the resignation, an actual agreement that we sign,” said an employee. “Can we get a copy of it in advance for preview? Can we receive a copy of the agreement if there is an agreement? “
“I don’t know,” said Holmes. “But it will circle again.”
The confusion comes when the deadline of February 6th that federal workers accept the deal threatens. In the e -mail – what was Very similar to a musk that Twitter employee sent in 2022– The sender, which was identified as OPM (Office of Personnel Management), suggests that employees who do not decide to resign could lose their work later. Holmes was asked whether it could commit itself at a certain point in time in order to provide the Doge workforce additional details on the postponed cancellations.
“No,” said Holmes. “You know, I think the information you have is currently available, and here too you only have to make a personal decision based on the information that is currently available to you.”
The same employee replied and said: “I apologize for the interjection, but there are a variety of things that this space has produced that are contradictory or challenging. I just wonder why you cannot commit yourself to provide these details at the moment. “
“Yes, I guess your question and I don’t want to be repeating or be argumentative in any way, but I would only encourage you not to lose sight of the overall picture here,” says Holmes. “The advantage of accepting the resigned withdrawal is that you are guaranteed to be subjected to a reduction in strength and that you are freed from returning to the office. So I would only encourage them to concentrate on the generous aspects of the offer. “
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President Donald Trump on his first day of the office signed an executive regulation in which the Department of Government EfficiencyOr Doge, by reorganizing the digital services of the USA, an existing unit that is housed in the President’s executive office as a USDOKE service. Trump appointed Elon Musk as the head of Doge, who would make great efforts to reduce the expenditure between government agencies. For publication, Doge looks at least three complaints His name as a federal authority in question.
While Musk has installed Lieutenants on the top levels and now uses it as a lever to exercise control over the federal government Small agency With around 200 employees. His mandate was to disguise a dysfunctional technology in the entire government, in the service of which they were able to enter government agencies and access their software and technical systems.
