It's a common stressor because it's obviously going to be used to assess your job performance, and you need to put effort both into reporting accurately and mak

It's a common stressor because it's obviously going to be used to assess your job performance, and you need to put effort both into reporting accurately and making you look good. It can get excessive, depending on the quality of management. I've seen bad software managers essentially demand that devs live demo everything they're working on, three times a day, with no notice. I find good managers are capable of measuring progress without demanding frequent "status updates". It varies from job to job, but I find getting frequent, small PRs (even to dev branches) works well.