Job Check
Human Resources Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate human resources activities and staff of an organization.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Serve as a link between management and employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of subordinates and staff relating to employment, compensation, labor relations, and employee relations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Perform difficult staffing duties, including dealing with understaffing, refereeing disputes, firing employees, and administering disciplinary procedures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Represent organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.Mostly human for now
- 05Negotiate bargaining agreements and help interpret labor contracts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Advise managers on organizational policy matters, such as equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment, and recommend needed changes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.Mostly human for now
- 08Analyze and modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview, and select applicants.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Investigate and report on industrial accidents for insurance carriers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
48%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 44% 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
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Represent organization at personnel-related hearings and investigations.
- Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.