When companies find out their employees have automated their jobs but are at the end of their useful output they don't even blink before kicking them out on their ass but saving their sweet-ass automation. Honestly why is it the employees duty to give their employer information which would have been to wholly the employer's benefit and none of his own when the employee is the less powerful party here? Employer basically had no choice but to fire him even if he was worth keeping in isolation just because they can't normalize getting gamed by their employees.
There's often political downsides for the employee as well for automating their job. You become an existential threat to incompetent employees and/or employees doing automatable jobs. If you're TOO productive people may go hardball and attempt to crush you with their social connections. So you have political incentives to herd your productivity to something in proportion with other employees by reducing your actual hours working.
There's often political downsides for the employee as well for automating their job. You become an existential threat to incompetent employees and/or employees doing automatable jobs. If you're TOO productive people may go hardball and attempt to crush you with their social connections. So you have political incentives to herd your productivity to something in proportion with other employees by reducing your actual hours working.