Well, in my office, now home office (the silver lining to COVID), you wouldn’t get away with not working. There’s far too many sync-up meetings and status meetings that if you didn’t show progress, people would be complaining in a week or two that you’re holding up the project. Then we have charge numbers for each task on a project that our time is accounted for/to and the program managers are not going to pay you to sit around and not produce. Everything is quite visible that way. Of course, my company produces physical products so it may be quite different for ESG jobs, etc.
Back in the ‘Old Days’, we had a project board on the wall with ALL OUR NAMES ON IT and a chart of our part of a project, and it was a horizontal bar chart of each of our progress.
Anyone who was not on par with the rest of us better have a damn good excuse..................