Overview

• The Office of Personnel Management issued a memo on August 5 rescinding guidance for the weekly 'five things' email, formally ending the program.
• Federal agencies had largely abandoned the reporting requirement after its February launch due to confusion over compliance and enforcement.
• OPM Director Scott Kupor, who took office in July, concluded that processing the summaries was very manual and inefficient, driving the decision to halt the initiative.
• The directive had drawn criticism from agency leaders and raised due-process and privacy concerns, leading the Defense Department and others to drop the mandate in May.
• Elon Musk left his government post in May following a public dispute with President Trump, depriving the initiative of its chief proponent.