Goings on at OPM
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Here's the story:
A new Trump administration plan to send an alert to the federal government's roughly 2.3 million employees from a single email address launched this week and confused at least some of the rank and file, who were concerned it looked suspicious.
The Office of Personnel Management "is testing a new capability allowing them to send important communications to ALL Federal employees from a single mail address, [hr-at-opm-.gov] If you receive an email from this address, it can be considered trusted," according to the message sent Friday.
CBS News obtained a screengrab of the message and confirmed its authenticity with multiple federal employees and officials.
OPM, which serves as the federal government's human resources and employee benefits department, sent the government-wide message overnight, two agency officials confirmed to CBS News.
"This is a new effort under this administration," one of the officials said.
White House officials didn't immediately respond to questions about what the new email alert system might be used for or why the new system was being implemented this week.
Here's some of the chatter on Reddit. Lots of threads about it there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ibbbh7/this_was_posted_about_opm_in_our_union_chat/
