Automating something and efficiency may or may not be desirable thing depending on the alignment on incentives. Let's say you are a small company with a relati

Automating something and efficiency may or may not be desirable thing depending on the alignment on incentives. Let's say you are a small company with a relatively flat structure and you as the owner, also work as CEO. Then every bit of efficiency is precious to you. Let's say you, a techie hotshot, come to work for a big company, and automate some process that suddenly makes 20% of staff in your department redundant. Essentially that means that your boss and may be boss of your boss will have to lay people off (which is bad for morale and relationships), they get smaller headcount and budget numbers. Let's just say you may see a lot of resistance.