Totally agree. I had days at the office I accomplished totally nothing and others at home I did the same, it’s normal not to be productive every single day. But I always manage to deliver and manage clients/managers expectations.

Why would u say that is harder to recognize slacking people? I would say just by hearing the dailies and having one-on-ones every now and then you could get it.

And usually there is some sort of measurable thing, as programmer just looking at my Jira ticket plus commit history is kinda easy to understand if I’m doing smth or not and if I’m not then I should be saying in the daily what’s the issue I’m getting so someone can help/be aware.