Clean facilities or work areas
Little of this can be handed to software today.
This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Physical, manual and inspection work |
| Jobs that do it | 29 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Performing General Physical Activities (4.A.3.a.1) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 29 occupations that perform it.
- Clean laboratory facilities.
- Clean classrooms.
- Perform general cleaning duties in the store to ensure the shop is clean and tidy.
- Perform serving, cleaning, or stocking duties in establishments, such as cafeterias or dining rooms, to facilitate customer service.
- Feed or exercise animals or provide other general care, such as cleaning or maintaining holding or performance areas.
- Do facility laundry and clean, organize, maintain, and disinfect animal quarters, such as pens and stables, and equipment, such as saddles and bridles.
- Clean facilities.
- Clean sporting equipment, vehicles, rides, booths, facilities, or grounds.
- Clean facilities such as floors or locker rooms.
- Clean the crematorium, including tables, floors, and equipment.
- Clean funeral parlors or chapels.
- Clean funeral home facilities and grounds.
- Clean work stations and sweep floors.
- Keep work stations clean and sanitize tools, such as scissors and combs.
- Sterilize equipment and clean work areas.
- Maintain clean lobbies or entrance areas for travelers or guests.
- Clean and tidy hotel lounge.
- Handle slides, mud, or pit cleanings or maintenance.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves it.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
29 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Amusement and Recreation Attendants
- Animal Caretakers
- Animal Trainers
- Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants
- Baggage Porters and Bellhops
- Barbers
- Bridge and Lock Tenders
- Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
- Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment
- Concierges
- Conveyor Operators and Tenders
- Crematory Operators
- Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
- Floral Designers
- Funeral Attendants
- Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators
- Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
- Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
- Packers and Packagers, Hand
- Parking Attendants
- Ship Engineers
- Skincare Specialists
- Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
- Teaching Assistants, Special Education
- Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.