Clean surfaces in preparation for work activities.
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 | 15 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Performing General Physical Activities (4.A.3.a.1) |
What could do this work.
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.
Who does this work.
15 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
- Construction Laborers
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators
- Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
- Floral Designers
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
- Helpers--Roofers
- Painters, Construction and Maintenance
- Paperhangers
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons
- Terrazzo Workers and Finishers
- Tile and Stone Setters
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.