My new senior manager asked my team to give a status update in the morning scum, scrum excel, task excel, jira update everyday and ask for an update in slack channel every 4 hours twice a day. All this when the task is about to be completed 5 days instead of 10 days. Is there anything that can be done to restore work life balance?

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If your manager believes in minute details and hourly update etc the best way is to use that against them.

Start updating your progress on an hourly basis.
Do not take up any additional work or calls even from the manager when you have scheduled some activity already.

Most import point - keep adding time for updating the tracker / attending calls also into the tracker. If call is scheduled for 60 mins

5 mins to update the tracker
60 min in call
15 min for MoM
Try this and clearly call out I need 10 days or 80 hrs while this tasks take up so and so time and hence I will need 11 days to complete

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I wish I was.

Just lessons learnt from working with difficult clients ( read Indian)

Make him understand that reporting time for a task can't take more time than the actual task completion time, specially when the task itself is WIP

It is also a possibility that s/he is not aware/ confident about the documentation/ reporting/ current way of working

Set up a session to understand why the need, what is lacking, how to gain confidence etc

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