HHS Tells Staff to Pause Responses to Email Describing Work (2)

Feb. 23, 2025, 7:35 PM UTCUpdated: Feb. 23, 2025, 11:42 PM UTC

The Department of Health and Human Services is now directing employees to wait on answering a government-wide message asking workers to share their recent accomplishments, after telling them earlier Sunday to respond to the email.

The health agency sent an email to employees Sunday morning with the subject line “Urgent: Action Required” in response to the Office of Personnel Management’s directive requesting federal employees to submit a bullet-point summary of their work from the last week.

But by Sunday evening, HHS sent updated guidance directing employees to “pause” activities in answering the OPM email. The agency said it will provide ...

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