The U.S. Office of Personnel Management, behind the program, called it a “fork in the road” for civil servants who would otherwise be held to new standards of on-the-job performance.

At Twitter, a number of employees opted in to the Fork in the Road, only to get fired shortly afterwards (some on the night before Thanksgiving), she says. Today, many rank-and-file federal employees ...

More than two years ago, Musk asked Twitter employees in an email with the subject line “A Fork in the Road” to either commit to an “extremely hardcore” work environment or leave the company.