I’ve had jobs with both weekly reports and no reports, I’m highly specialized engineering as well as competitive sales roles. The weekly reports were useless. Management already knows what you’re doing, just through meetings. So the weekly reports added nothing extra, except create useless work. So it’s no surprise that someone as useless as Elon Musk would push for something like that.
Musk knows this is useless. And he knows the people responding will know they are useless. He WANTS the people sending the response emails to know they are useless and be demoralized. Musk isn't dumb, you are just assuming his goal is something different than what is actually is. His goal is to demoralize everyone who works for the government. They have stated that is the goal but for some reason people keep ignoring their works and giving them the benefit of the doubt.
