Quite likely she will be punished for it, directly or indirectly. This is why it’s bad to be an employee. If you earn a living by knitting scarves in your house and work out a way to make them faster or better, or both, you’ll make more money or have more free time. If you knit scarves for a salary you’ll probably suffer for doing it faster or better.
> Quite likely she will be punished for it, directly or indirectly.
Not at most modern companies in the real world.
Jobs have already been so hyper-specialized that you have minimal staff "managing" large portions of the company, amortized over a large number of locations / amount of business.
Consequently, if a job task is taken off their plate, there are innumerable additional tasks to backfill the free time.
And critically, tasks that are probably more intellectually fulfilling than the lowest-hanging-fruit rote tasks that are automated.
Because it makes her job easier or improves her performance?
That's why I automate things at work, anyway. Being rewarded by my company for doing it doesn't really enter into the equation for me.