Sounds inhuman.
Nah, sounds like management, but I am repeating myself. In all seriousness, I have found myself having to carefully rein some of similar decisions in. I don't want to get into details, but there are times I wonder if they understand how things really work or if people need some 'floor' level exposure before they just decree stuff.
As an industry, we've been doing the same thing to people in almost every other sector of the workforce, since we began. Automation is just starting to come for us now, and a lot of us are really pissed off about it. All of a sudden, we're humanitarians.