Your employer's organisation's sole purpose is to make a profit for its shareholders. Unless you are either one of the shareholders or will be paid more for increased production you have no incentive to produce more.
Bar your personal relationships of course, if your boss is a great person and you feel like doing them a favour then that's an incentive.
If you believe you could be paid more for increased production, via a raise or promotion, discuss this with your boss in the form of:
"I have an idea, which I need to spend X hours working on and I'm fairly certain I can get it to work and it would provide Y% more productivity. If I do raise my productivity by Y% what would this mean to me?"
If they state something attractive as the outcome, get it in writing. I interpret this as basically the company paying you for your IP, specially if your automation can be replicated to other employees.
Now if your sole job is automating stuff / increasing productivity at the organisation... then that's a whole other story.
Just remember that if YOU automated your job, the organisation could ALSO do it and not need you anymore - so maybe use the extra time to find a job not easily automated.
Your employer's organisation's sole purpose is to make a profit for its shareholders. Unless you are either one of the shareholders or will be paid more for increased production you have no incentive to produce more.
Bar your personal relationships of course, if your boss is a great person and you feel like doing them a favour then that's an incentive.
If you believe you could be paid more for increased production, via a raise or promotion, discuss this with your boss in the form of:
"I have an idea, which I need to spend X hours working on and I'm fairly certain I can get it to work and it would provide Y% more productivity. If I do raise my productivity by Y% what would this mean to me?"
If they state something attractive as the outcome, get it in writing. I interpret this as basically the company paying you for your IP, specially if your automation can be replicated to other employees.
Now if your sole job is automating stuff / increasing productivity at the organisation... then that's a whole other story.
Just remember that if YOU automated your job, the organisation could ALSO do it and not need you anymore - so maybe use the extra time to find a job not easily automated.