Fallacies against automating work

There’s some sort of status quo against automating a lot of small/quick tasks in a company’s day-to-day that’s quite hard to explain, but I’ve seen managers and engineers justify that by making a reference to this xkcd . That’s a fallacy.

It is an insane amount of effort to automate stuff on today’s walled gardens. Both to create the automation and then to maintain it. Most people just accept the fallacy and stay in the status quo.

There’s a lot more than just the time taken to complete a certain task. There’s time training people on doing the task (this includes learning what even they’re doing - hopefully you’re at least teaching that, right?). Time wasted breaking productive flows by getting people to do the manual tasks. Even the time they take to do all of this is time that’s taken away from other things they could be doing, because time is very limited.