Does Productivity Influence Profit? --Dickeson

A. Yes. In reality, those are the gains and penalties, the joys and sorrows, of increased productivity in a free economy.

Q. What happens if I don't increase sales or release people?

A. You will suffer from costly excess capacity and endanger your business survival.

This is the stark, naked truth about increased productivity. In 1811 the Luddites of Great Britain learned of this inevitable result and tried to destroy new automation in the knitting mills. Thus, it should really come as no surprise 200 years later. We want productivity to increase. We want more output per labor hour.