It may or may not be a waste, but why do you believe it to be unethical? The employer employee job is a contractual one. When it is the company that sees me as

It may or may not be a waste, but why do you believe it to be unethical? The employer employee job is a contractual one. When it is the company that sees me as an inefficiency I will be eliminated for the companies gain. Similarly when I the employee see an inefficiency in the company, I can eliminate (automate) it for my gain. This is the symmetry in the contractual relationship. To say that this relationship should be asymmetric is to grant even more power in the employer-employee relationship to the employer.