You are a Champion!
Your productivity improvements should be “controlled” by economics.
As in government, productivity gains are often (stifled) controlled by subjective decisions that are not rational when it comes to economics and slows down productivity improvements, growth of the economy, and even eventual collapse of governments.
Bad or wrong decisions should be corrected quickly!
For example, if the wrong person is hired for a position it is not fair to other employees in the company to continue working around or over the nonproductive people (carrying their load). Therefore, correction of a mistake is not a “heartless” decision but a “necessary” decision. This is often the hardest part of being in business.
This is one of the main reasons that Network Marketing Distributors have a significant advantage over other business models.
My wife and I were going to meet with a small business person just the other day who was detained in a meeting with a person he had just fired. The person wanted to draw unemployment compensation even though she was being fired for cause. As you may know, this increases the cost of being in business and a hard (distasteful) decision had to be made.
If you find these kinds of decisions upsetting you may want to join Network Marketing instead of starting a small business where these types of decisions “have” to be made everyday.