‘5 bullet points’ email now a weekly task for Pentagon civilians

The “five things I did this week” email just became a weekly task for Defense civilians.

On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth added to guidance he issued last week, instructing the department’s roughly 760,000 civilian employees to send five bullet points about their weekly achievements no later than noon Eastern time every Tuesday.

Employees—but not troops—will receive a reminder each Friday from a personnel and readiness directorate address, and must respond and copy their immediate supervisors, Hegseth wrote. 

“Submissions must exclude classified or sensitive information and will be incorporated into weekly situation reports by supervisors,” the secretary wrote. “Non-compliance may lead to further review.”

The guidance came at the end of the department’s first week trying out the “five bullet points” emails originally ordered by the Office of Personnel Management, a brainchild of the Department of Government Efficiency advisory board at the White House.

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