Cuthroat Nostromo Shuttle Design

I was watching Alien Director's Cut on Max the other day and I thought, wow Weyland was brutal in their shuttle design for the Nostromo. If you were a crew member and you knew you were about to go into deep space with ONE emergency shuttle that only holds 2 people, you'd have to be on edge the entire trip. I mean Weyland has all this money and this great big mining craft but was too cheap to make a shuttle big enough for 4 more people. Yikes. OR... Was it a matter of being cutthroat & wanting juuuuust enough space for Ash to bring back 1 infected body, so they stuck them with a twin size over a king size? Either way, Weyland is my nominee for most ruthless company in the universe toward their workers, next to Apple, and African diamond harvesting & WV coal mining business. LOL