The monitoring app is a hoop I guess. I would hate it too because it's a form of control over the work. I once had a client who, at the negotiation of the cont

The monitoring app is a hoop I guess. I would hate it too because it's a form of control over the work. I once had a client who, at the negotiation of the contract, wanted me to work from an "office" (an in-laws quarters) for a specific set of hours each week. His desire for that was because he wanted to make sure he was getting his money's worth; that if I said I was charging him for 10 hours, I was spending 10 hours on the task. I told him that, along with other stipulations, would qualify me as an employee. He and his fiance/business partner insisted it didn't. That was troubling because his fiance was a lawyer. I declined to take the project.