I can understand requiring the team to be present/online during a certain chunk of the day, so that meetings can be had and people are around if others need hel

I can understand requiring the team to be present/online during a certain chunk of the day, so that meetings can be had and people are around if others need help or need to coordinate, but, time tracking for FTEs!? I can only see the most unemployable of Engineers putting up with that shit.