> "usually it should be more like a day" is bad advice in my opinion, and a likely source of micro management. Let professionals do their work.

In my team we always publish some form of status report at the end of the day. This could be a pull request or a list of open questions on the task. For us that is less about micro management and more about bus factor: If a person calls in sick the next day the rest of the team wouldn't be able to continue that persons tasks without this process.

I understand that this can be detrimental when it feels like micro management. But I believe it is more a question of framing.