> As a manager or co-worker, if you reported "no progress" a few days in a row, I'd ask why not. "Do you need help?" coming from someone in a position of power

> As a manager or co-worker, if you reported "no progress" a few days in a row, I'd ask why not. "Do you need help?" coming from someone in a position of power over you could be either a genuine question, or a veiled threat to improve your performance ("or else"), possibly even unintentionally veiled on the assumption that a "gentler" way of putting it will be less stressful. For me, it's anything but. If a "do you need help" happened several times in a row, I'd be getting an anxiety attack every time I get pinged on Slack, and frantically polishing my CV in the assumption that I'll get found out and fired any day now, fairly or unfairly. Yes, I am jaded about this. That's why I don't like daily status updates.