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Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping
Compile and keep personnel records. Record data for each employee, such as address, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports, and date of and reason for termination. May prepare reports for employment records, file employment records, or search employee files and furnish information to authorized persons.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Process, verify, and maintain personnel related documentation, including staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance evaluations, classifications, and employee leaves of absence.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Record data for each employee, including such information as addresses, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on performance, and dates of and reasons for terminations.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Explain company personnel policies, benefits, and procedures to employees or job applicants.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Provide assistance in administering employee benefit programs and worker's compensation plans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Answer questions regarding examinations, eligibility, salaries, benefits, and other pertinent information.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Prepare and set up for new employee orientations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Gather personnel records from other departments or employees.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Examine employee files to answer inquiries and provide information for personnel actions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Search employee files to obtain information for authorized persons and organizations, such as credit bureaus and finance companies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Compile and prepare reports and documents pertaining to personnel activities.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss41%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
62%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 72% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 39% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.