This honestly sounds like a manager saying 'from now on I want everyone to log when they arrive to work into this Excel file shared from my laptop so that I can

This honestly sounds like a manager saying 'from now on I want everyone to log when they arrive to work into this Excel file shared from my laptop so that I can look at it and see how we're doing attendance-wise', completely disregarding whether that approach is feasible or worthwhile, if there's a better solution, or if it's just going to confuse and frustrate everyone. I never thought I would compare RMS to the clueless manager stereotype, but this 'I don't understand it so it's obviously a problem' attitude is just… ignorant.