Communicate with government agencies
Part of the output can be produced by software today.
An agent can propose the plan, chase the replies and keep the record current. To actually change anything it needs write access to a calendar or work system, and a person still owns the tradeoffs when two plans collide.
| How automatable | Partly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Scheduling, planning and resource control |
| Jobs that do it | 22 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others (4.A.4.b.1) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 22 occupations that perform it.
- Coordinate security operations or activities with public law enforcement, fire and other agencies.
- Inform businesses, community groups, and governmental agencies about educational needs, available programs, and program policies.
- Consult with government regulatory and licensing agencies to ensure the institution's conformance with applicable standards.
- Solicit project support by conferring with officials or providing information to the public.
- Record adverse event and side effect data and confer with investigators regarding the reporting of events to oversight agencies.
- Maintain contact with insurance carriers, fire and police departments, and other agencies to ensure protection and compliance with codes and regulations.
- Consult with officials of local and area governments, schools, hospitals, and other institutions to determine their needs and capabilities in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency.
- Report violations of compliance or regulatory standards to duly authorized enforcement agencies as appropriate or required.
- Collaborate with law enforcement to investigate and solve external theft or fraud cases.
- Maintain records of business transactions and product inventories, reporting data to companies or government agencies as necessary.
- Report law or regulation violations to appropriate boards or agencies.
- Submit samples of products to government laboratories for testing, as required.
- Provide pre-, ongoing, and post-inspection follow-up assistance to governmental inspectors.
- Consult with, or serve as, technical liaison between business, industry, government, and union officials.
- Secure a taxpayer's agreement to discharge a tax assessment or submit contested determinations to other administrative or judicial conferees for appeals hearings.
- Communicate test results to state and federal representatives and general public.
- Coordinate with federal land managers and other agencies and organizations to manage and protect rangelands.
- Monitor and report incidents of infectious diseases to local and state health agencies.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for scheduling, planning and resource control, and what it costs.
Scheduling is a connector problem rather than an intelligence one, and $9 a month of Make covers both the calendar and the chasing. An agent platform priced per seat adds nothing you would notice here.
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.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
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
22 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Anthropologists and Archeologists
- Architectural and Engineering Managers
- Biologists
- Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
- Clinical Research Coordinators
- Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
- Compliance Managers
- Compliance Officers
- Court, Municipal, and License Clerks
- Education Administrators, Postsecondary
- Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
- Emergency Management Directors
- Environmental Restoration Planners
- Epidemiologists
- Government Property Inspectors and Investigators
- Loss Prevention Managers
- Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
- Range Managers
- Regulatory Affairs Specialists
- Security Managers
- Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
- Urban and Regional Planners
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Coordinate activities with clients, agencies, or organizations”. 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.