Regulation to Breathe

Sometimes I feel like the corporate world is a race to nowhere, a world in which daily administrative regulations take over the real part of the job. We get caught up in all the paperwork, all the tracking, all the covering of our asses, that the whole point of it all is lost. I just want the freedom to do my job as I see fit as I am a capable, educated woman, then after I'm done, give me room to breathe and just be - Is that too much to ask?