Around the same time as Musk’s post, hundreds of thousands of federal workers received an email also titled “Fork in the Road,” with a similar offer: Simply send an email to the Office of Personnel Management with the word “Resign” in the subject line, and you’ll receive eight months’ pay, so long as you reply before Feb. 6.

Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel.

A new memo offering "deferred resignation" to all federal employees seems to be taking its strategy from Musk's chaotic Twitter takeover.