Automate the boring parts, and you might automate the joy
The plan is sensible: let AI take the drudgery so your best people do higher-value work. But sometimes the drudgery was the craft they loved, the part that made the job theirs. Strip it out and you can quietly remove the reason they stayed. Automating the boring parts isn’t free if the boring parts were the joy. Do you know which “low-value” work your best people would hate to lose?