Did Elon Musk write the federal worker buyout email?
The buyout offer that just went out to millions of US federal workers has the subject line, “Fork in the Road,” which is the same subject line Musk used when he gave his “extremely hardcore” ultimatum to Twitter employees in 2022.
Donald Trump’s offer to buyout federal workers borrows from Elon Musk’s RTO playbook but lawyers warn against taking the deal
Good morning! The new Trump administration gave federal workers an unusual offer this week: Return to the office full time, or resign and accept a buyout. According to an email reportedly sent to government employees on Tuesday night (later posted on the Office of Personnel Management’s website) workers have until Feb.
Federal-Worker Buyouts May Make Government As Broken As X
Musk tried a similar scheme after his takeover of Twitter. What could go wrong with applying it to millions of federal workers?
The ‘Muskification’ of the federal government is in full swing
In November 2022, days after Elon Musk took control of the company then called Twitter, employees received an email with the subject line: “A fork in the road.” Now he’s turned his attention to the US government,
Trump’s Federal Buyout Memo Has Echoes of Musk’s 2022 Twitter Purge
A new memo offering "deferred resignation" to all federal employees seems to be taking its strategy from Musk's chaotic Twitter takeover.
Trump's government-worker buyouts are feeling a lot like Musk's Twitter in 2022
The new administration is emailing government employees draft resignation letters. Musk sent a similar email to Twitter staff in 2022.
Elon Musk Looks to Stick a Fork in Federal Government Workers
Elon Musk pinned an old post to his X account cheekily recalling his 2022 “Fork in the Road” email to then-Twitter employees, offering the workers of the company he’d just purchased a chance to “be part of the new Twitter” by simply clicking “yes” by the end of the following day.
Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel.
Some government employees dismayed after Musk jokes about buyout offer
After the Trump administration offered two million government employees buyouts on Tuesday, DOGE head Elon Musk joked about ...
Shadows of Musk in the Government’s Buyouts Plan
President Trump’s chief cost-cutter cheered an effort to persuade federal workers to quit — in a fashion that closely ...
Musk team’s push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials
Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions ...
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Popular X Account Points Out Suspicious Similarities Between Federal Buyout Email and Infamous Musk Email to Twitter Staff
Users are pointing out the parallels between an email sent to federal employees by Donald Trump's administration and an email ...
Trump cribs Musk’s “fork in the road” Twitter memo to slash gov’t workforce
Echoing Elon Musk's approach to thinning out Twitter's staff in 2022, Donald Trump's plan to significantly slash the ...
Déjà Vu: Elon Musk Takes His Twitter Takeover Tactics to Washington
Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers — just like when Elon Musk ...
Trump buyout plan faces legal, logistical roadblocks
The Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal government by offering what amounts to a buyout to federal employees ...