Maintain security
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 | 10 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 10 occupations that perform it.
- Incorporate security systems into exhibit layouts.
- Follow ethical codes that protect the confidentiality of information.
- Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
- Apprehend or evict trespassers, rule violators, or other security threats from the premises.
- Contact security staff members when necessary, using radio-telephones.
- Maintain confidentiality of customers' transactions.
- Open and close library during specified hours and secure library equipment, such as computers and audio-visual equipment.
- Open or close information facilities.
- Maintain access to, and security of, highly sensitive materials.
- Maintain cage security.
- Take action to deal with disruptive or problem patrons.
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
10 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
- Gambling Cage Workers
- Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
- Interpreters and Translators
- Library Assistants, Clerical
- Medical Records Specialists
- Public Safety Telecommunicators
- Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
- Set and Exhibit Designers
- Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Maintain safety or security”. 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.