NIH Staff Are Asked to Comply With Weekly ‘What You Did Last Week’ Email — And to Keep It General

“The expectation is that HHS employees complete the same task and respond to the email every Monday,” the NIH’s acting director said in an email.

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The acting director of the National Institutes of Health directed agency employees to comply with the Office of Personnel Management’s request for weekly reports of what they accomplished in the previous week.

Acting NIH Director Matthew Memoli said in an email reviewed by NOTUS that “the expectation is that HHS employees complete the same task and respond to the email every Monday.”

Going forward, HHS will send a reminder email weekly, Memoli wrote. Contractors are exempt from the requirement.