WASHINGTON >> Federal workers are expected to receive another email as soon as today asking them to describe what they achieved this past week, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The email will come directly from agencies’ human resources divisions this time, instead of from the Office of Personnel Management, the person said. The decision comes after Office of Personnel Management leaders met with agency representatives Thursday and advised them to send out the emails, according to the person. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

It was not clear as of Friday afternoon how widely the plans had been communicated across the federal workforce, however. It was also unclear what consequences, if any, there would be if employees fail to comply.

Civilian workers at the Department of Defense received a heads-up Friday afternoon that they would receive the email Monday, and that a response was expected.

“Reply to that email and cc your supervisor within 48 hours,” the notice said. “Submissions must exclude classified or sensitive information and will be incorporated into weekly situation reports by supervisors. Noncompliance may lead to further review.”

That amounts to significantly more guidance than federal employees received last weekend, when they were surprised by a mass email from the Office of Personnel Management that instructed them to reply with a list of five accomplishments from their previous workweek.

The blast came shortly after billionaire Elon Musk, whom President Donald Trump has tasked with overseeing a major downsizing of the federal workforce, said on social media that it would be coming — and that failure to respond would be “taken as a resignation.”

“Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments,” that first email read. The deadline to respond was 11:59 p.m. last Monday.