Order materials, supplies, or equipment.
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 | 71 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders, Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Monitoring and Controlling Resources (4.A.4.c.3) |
What could do this work.
These are the categories of tool that address scheduling, planning and resource control, with a few live examples from our landscape. We name the category rather than promise that a specific product does your specific task, because that promise would not be true.
Tools and auth
Builders
Enterprise platforms
Categories are matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Before committing to any of them, check that the tool can reach the system your record actually lives in. That connection, not the model, is where most of these projects stall.
Who does this work.
71 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Animal Caretakers
- Bakers
- Barbers
- Baristas
- Bartenders
- Bicycle Repairers
- Billing and Posting Clerks
- Biological Technicians
- Butchers and Meat Cutters
- Calibration Technologists and Technicians
- Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers
- Chefs and Head Cooks
- Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
- Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers
- Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
- Concierges
- Cooks, Fast Food
- Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria
- Cooks, Private Household
- Cooks, Restaurant
- Cooks, Short Order
- Costume Attendants
- Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
- Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
- Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
- Fast Food and Counter Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
- First-Line Supervisors of Passenger Attendants
- First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
- Gambling Cage Workers
- Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
- Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop
- Hydrologists
- Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
- Library Assistants, Clerical
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance
- Mechanical Door Repairers
- Medical Equipment Repairers
- Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
- Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
- Parts Salespersons
- Patternmakers, Wood
- Postal Service Clerks
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Printing Press Operators
- Procurement Clerks
- Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
- Receptionists and Information Clerks
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Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Purchase goods or services”. 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.