CNN10d
‘It’s the shadow OPM’: How DOGE is using a once-obscure federal agency as ground zero for its plans to shrink government
The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal government, is now ground zero for Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to ...
Government Executive28d
OPM fires its own probationary period staff
Recent hires at the Office of Personnel Management were terminated on Thursday afternoon, according to three people familiar with the matter and internal communications obtained by Government ...
CBS News9d
Trump administration revises directive to federal agencies on mass firings
Washington — The Office of Personnel Management issued revised guidance to federal agencies Tuesday regarding the firing of probationary workers amid President Trump's efforts to shrink the size ...
LAist9d
OPM alters memo about probationary employees but does not order mass firings reversed
The Trump administration has revised a Jan. 20 memo asking federal agencies to provide a list of all probationary employees to the Office of Personnel Management, adding a disclaimer that OPM is ...
Hosted on MSN28d
OPM directs agencies to fire government workers still on probation
That was even true at OPM, where the agency fired its probationary staff, cutting them off from systems at 3 p.m. EST, according to Gov Exec. The move appears to have affected 70 employees there.
Fox News12d
OPM's second email to federal employees asks what they did last week — and adds a new requirement: report
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is once again asking federal workers to explain what they have accomplished as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk work to root out waste.
Reuters29d
Exclusive: OPM staffers fired en masse on conference call as part of Musk purge, sources say
WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - All probationary staff at the Office of Personnel Management were fired on Thursday in a conference call and given less than an hour to leave the building in ...
Government Executive10d
OPM retroactively edits probationary firing guidance to note it did not order probationary firings
The revision follows a court ruling that found the Office of Personnel Management illegally ordered agencies to terminate large swaths of employees in their probationary periods, most frequently ...
CBS News17d
Federal agencies can ignore "What did you do last week?" email, Trump administration says
Two officials said that the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, held a call with the heads of human capital at federal agencies and said it's up to each entity to determine how they want to ...
Nextgov1mon
OPM reveals new details about its CIO
The new details on his background follow Nextgov/FCW reporting on the questions raised by the Office of Personnel Management’s unique privacy impact assessment that this new CIO signed for the ...
The Hill17d
OPM tells HR leaders that response to Musk is ‘voluntary’
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) informed agency leaders that employee response to an email asking for a recap of what they accomplished last week is voluntary and that failure to do so ...