What Are My Teammates Working On?

The most pressing problem is, what are people working on? So ye, as an i c it's like, what are my team mates working on? Where do i pass the ball? If your team leader, you're responsible for the output of your team, so you kind of need to know. But how do you do that in a way where you're not just holding meetings all day or bugging them in slack? Then that's why you see, you know, this rise in meetings when people go remote. That's why you see managers spending twice as much time in work place. Chat is like, is that actually a good outcome? These tools are wonderful, by the way