In President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s latest move targeting the federal workforce, employees began receiving emails Saturday afternoon asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.

Musk caused alarm among federal employees over an email sent on Saturday requesting that employees summarize their work.

All federal government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday. Musk posted on X that employees will be receiving an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.