Human Knowledge/Skill IP is not being talked about enough

I don't know what to all this type of knowledge but recently was an article (and not to uncommon) of an IT worker who built a chatbot that did his jobs for him and actually got better satisfaction scores and the workers were happy until they found out he made a bot and wasn't doing much work. This feels no different than people who automate their first job and quietly take on a second. I like to say, good for them, because they figured out how to do the work efficiently. So the real question isn’t can you do it, it’s whether a company has the right to take that away from you once you do.