Clean 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 | 33 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.
33 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Automotive Body and Related Repairers
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
- Biofuels Processing Technicians
- Biomass Plant Technicians
- Cashiers
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Demonstrators and Product Promoters
- Embalmers
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
- Food Batchmakers
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
- Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Helpers--Production Workers
- Hydroelectric Plant Technicians
- Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Motion Picture Projectionists
- Parts Salespersons
- Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
- Recycling and Reclamation Workers
- Retail Salespersons
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Team Assemblers
- Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
- Tire Repairers and Changers
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
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.