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I can tell you this is classic panic-management. When a project slips, even on the sales side, anxious leadership often introduces blanket tracking to give themselves the illusion of control. It’s a fear-based response, not a reflection of your track record. Good leaders track outcomes, not hours. (Remember that)
Since you want to handle this safely without getting into trouble, here is a low-risk strategy:
1. Do not spend 30 minutes on this.
Spend exactly 3 minutes. Create a simple template with broad, vague blocks of time (e.g., 'Project X development – 3 hours', 'Internal admin – 2 hours'). Give them the bare minimum data required to tick their compliance box.
2. Log the tracking time.
Include a line item every single day: 'Administrative task: Time tracking log – 30 minutes.' (Yes. Spend 3min, log 30min). Make the cost of this micro-management visible on paper. When leadership realises how much productive revenue-generating time is being wasted on paperwork, they usually rethink the policy.
3. Propose a professional pivot.
At your next 1-on-1, try saying: 'To ensure I am maximising my time on deliverables, can we try a high-level weekly bulleted summary of milestones instead of daily logs?' This offers them visibility while protecting your autonomy.
Hang in there. Keep hitting your milestones. Knee-jerk mandates like this almost always fizzle out in a few weeks once the managers get bored of reading the spreadsheets.
Two things:
1. That's 💯 a job for AI. Do not track your hours by hand. At the end of your day have a skill where the agent of your choice looks through your commits and creates an hourly log of what you've done. If your life is meeting-heavy, hook it into your calendar so it captures that as well.
2. Your manager didn't use the term "coaching," did they? Where I come from the combo of those two things means that you're on the PIP express to unemployedsville.
Check every thing into source control as you go, even non code tasks. Have Claude Code or ChatGPT summarize your git history.
Eek….To be honest, I would be worried that they are crunching numbers to see how they can cut costs and improve the bottom line. I would get your resume updated, and start looking for a new job.
I don’t want to be an alarmist, but…this sort of thing happened to me several years ago at a large tech company, and it ended with the establishment of a (secret) office in the Midwest (so lower cost).
They chose all the roles at HQ that they thought could be transferred to this satellite office, we were all RIFFED, and the work transferred to 12 year olds with no experience or interest in learning the subject matter. (I had kind of a Niche role and a unique skill set, but apparently it was deemed that said 12 year old could do it AND another role as well, so they basically deemed these two roles “clerical”. ) 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ It was absolutely devastating.
Me bitter? 😂😂😂
This is a classic example of MICRO MANAGEMENT. At least for most organizations (start upsSMBs , mid-Market.
Unless you work in a highly regulated company that delivers services to clients. (Ex: A managed service provider). These require daily operations and projects hours to be recorded and reported accurately.
If you like the company and the work you’re delivering, just bite the bullet and do the daily reporting. Every job has pros and cons.
You use git and have claude code write the report, get off his radar fast and trust builds, you'll stop being involved in such trivial matters.
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These days, companies are looking for which 10% of the workforce they can shed, even after eliminating a previous 25%. This is data-gathering for "who's the weakest team member." Suck it up and document, and if you see any concerning patterns in your own breakdown, then you can try to do something to balance the numbers more in your favor (e.g., less time spent on email details, more on actual development tasks).
Good luck.
My job role is being made redundant, there are alternative internal job roles which I expect they’ll offer me to try out during redundancy consultations- according to UK redundancy policy, but I didn’t get that. So I applied to one of the roles by myself, got shortlisted, invited for interview, and while I was preparing to go ace it, I received an email that the interview will not be going on anymore. It’s frustrating, and I’m appealing it, although the trade union rep is not going to be available. Any form of advice will be appreciated for when I sit for the hearing