Do you have to “check in” and out?

I have a job that is remote/WFH/travel/client site/”whatever it takes”/. I regularly have meetings at 6AM and 9PM with Asia and Europe. I have to travel monthly, regularly travel international and have to respond to the client site as needed. I’m salary.

My company got acquired. The new company wants us to “check in” by teams when we “start working” and “finish work”, whatever the fuck that means, and my boss is monitoring these check-ins.

They say it’s to “know what the team is doing” and promote work life balance. All it’s doing is stressing me out because I don’t know when I’m supposed to check in and out, I take my kids to school and just wonder if I was supposed to check out for that, I check my email on my phone before bed and wonder if I was supposed to check in for that. Basically it’s bullshit.

Tips? Considering making an autohotkey script to just auto send messages or something.