The Trump administration’s human resources department is no longer forcing federal workers to respond to a weekly email asking them to list five recent accomplishments, an initiative that was the brainchild of Elon Musk before his dramatic falling out with the president earlier this year.
Instead, the Office of Personnel Management decided its internal performance evaluations had been sufficient all along.
“We believe that managers are accountable to staying informed about what their team members are working on and have many other existing tools to do so,” OPM Director Scott Kupor said in a statement to Reuters, which first reported the program’s conclusion.