Several US government agencies have advised their employees to ignore for now a demand from Elon Musk’s government efficiency office to justify their jobs or face dismissal.

X owner Elon Musk recently demanded that all federal employees send him an email outlining five things that they accomplished in the last week -- and he warned them that failure to do so would result in their termination.

The Department of Defense has instructed its personnel not to respond to a request from the Office of Personnel Management asking for a list of five things they accomplished in the last week. Federal workers across several agencies received an email from OPM asking them to document five things they accomplished in the past week,