The email fell in the incoming boxes for employees with the topic line: “Thorn on the road”. The message in the email was blatant: accepting a comprehensive set of changes in the workplace or resignation.
It was Observation Millions of federal employees received at 5 pm on Tuesday. A similar message reported that thousands of workers in Twitter obtained from Elon Musk in late 2022 after buying the company.
Mr. Musk brought the tactics of Twitter acquisitions to the federal government, where he became a close consultant for President Trump and runs the cost reduction initiative called the Ministry of Government efficiency. The administration is already canceling diversity initiatives, testing the ingenuity of engineering and demanding the loyalty of federal employees, and embraced Mr. Musk to reduce the budget and operations of the social media company.
The email on Tuesday, which was sent by the Personnel Management Office, was the latest example of the fingerprints of the billionaire, to the topic line – such as the acquisition of the 2022 acquisition of Twitter employees.
“It is a feeling of a knife in your dream,” said Romman Chuoderi, a former Twitter executive, who is now known as X, said after Mr. Musk acquired. “Understanding is wild.”
Mr. Musk, spokeswoman for a government initiative to reduce costs immediately for the suspension requests.
Mr. Musk said before he expected to reduce $ 2 trillion of federal budget. Between 5 and 10 percent of federal workers, the exit package was expected to accept on Tuesday, which may lead to about $ 100 billion in savings, “said the Political Action Committee for Mr. Musk, America Pak, in a position in one of the close associates x.
Mr. Musk, who also leads Tesla and Spacex, recruited a team of loyalists to evaluate agencies and make discounts, the same thing he did during the Twitter acquisition.
Help Steve Davis, president of the company, MR. Musk’s Tunneling Startup, the boring company, in overseeing the cost costs on Twitter and now leads DOGE. Brian Bilde, a long -time human resource executive in Spacex, who also helped during the Twitter acquisition, has also helped consultant to the Personnel Management Office.
Michael Grames, a major banker in Morgan Stanley helped lead Mr. Musk’s acquisition on Twitter, It is expected to take the job of senior In the Trade Department.
One of the software engineers was named at MR. Musk in Tesla, Thomas SHEDD, head of “technology transfer services” in public services management, which helps to manage federal agencies. Mr. SHEDD immediately made a Musk Tick: Request to prove the artistic pieces of engineers.
Mr. SHEDD asked the engineers to participate in the sessions through which they can share a “modern technical victory”, according to an email sent to more than 700 employees on Tuesday night and saw the Times.
“These sessions are an opportunity to understand the types of experience we have,” said Mr. Shadd in his email, who emphasized “working hours at a factory” in Tesla.
Just one day after obtaining Twitter, Mr. Musk called for engineers in printing and exchanging the programming instructions that they wrote for the various products of the company.
Mr. Musk also worked quickly to retract diversity initiatives in the social media company – a step that Mr. Trump’s wave echoed from executive orders in the first week in his position, which canceled the efforts of diversity and integration in the federal government.
“These programs divided the Americans by race, wasted taxpayers dollars, and led to disgraceful discrimination,” according to email messages that were sent to federal workers who viewed them in the Times.
After buying Twitter, Mr. Musk criticized the attempts of the previous administration to enhance diversity, and to share a video in it Shirts It was made for the company’s black staff group. Under his leadership, the company reduced funding for employee resources groups, and has reduced a mural celebrating the Black Lives Matter in its office in San Francisco, according to former employees.
One of Mr. Musk’s tactics to reduce costs on Twitter was to reduce the company’s real estate imprint. he Stop the rent For various office spaces around the world, which led to the evacuation of several facilities, including in Seattle and Bolder, Colo.
Public Services Department also targets real estate to reduce costs. Stephen Ikian, the former CEO of Technology and Trump, told the workers in an email on Tuesday that the times saw that two agency’s property will be included for sale while three rental decades have been completed. This step will provide about $ 11 million and it was a “first step” in reducing real estate expenditures, according to the email.
While Mr. Musk eventually converted Twitter, which reduced employees by 80 percent and reduced the real estate imprint, his work decreased. Advertisers have escaped from the site in large numbers, and at least one investor estimated that the company is now 72 percent of $ 44 billion, which he paid for that.
Mr. Musk wrote in an e -mail to X employees earlier this month. Wall Street Magazine. “We need to be faster, more innovative and unabated focus.”
Mr. Musk on Tuesday evening, the appearance returned One of his posts 2024 on xIt appears to refer to the email of “Fork in the Road” to federal employees, who demanded that they be “reliable, loyal, trustworthy” and “seeking to achieve excellence.”
Some government workers are looking for former Twitter employees for instructions.
Several federal employees have been distributed Online posts From Dr. Chaudhry gives advice on how to respond to musk preparation. Others called Bhannon, not Ryurdan, a recruitment lawyer who sues Mr. Musk on behalf of the former Twitter workers.
“Elon clearly believes that he learned from Twitter how to reduce the workplace and is trying to present the same playing book with the federal government now.”
Theodor Shelvverand Anna Swanson and Mourin Farrell The reports contributed.
