At one job I had to enter everything I was doing in 15 minute increments into an excel spreadsheet (with the rest of my teammates). We also used software that could track our productivity while we were using it (about half the time) so you bet your self-report would be compared to the software. That came down from up above, it wasn't my managers fault, but that was micromanagement. Your times weren't publicly available so this wasn't some weird set of time metrics to meet or exceed. This information was just gathered - and used somehow, I guess, but the time tracking initiative began a few months before I found a new job and quit. There was no end to it in sight when I left. In theory the department was understaffed and they were collecting this information to justify hiring new staff but it smelled like shit to me. Overtime was never authorized at this job, if you were understaffed wouldn't you offer OT before looking into hiring additional staff? Especially if deadlines weren't getting met?