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Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Perform any combination of light cleaning duties to maintain private households or commercial establishments, such as hotels and hospitals, in a clean and orderly manner. Duties may include making beds, replenishing linens, cleaning rooms and halls, and vacuuming.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Keep storage areas and carts well-stocked, clean, and tidy.Mostly human for now
- 02Carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts.Mostly human for now
- 03Clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.Mostly human for now
- 04Empty wastebaskets, empty and clean ashtrays, and transport other trash and waste to disposal areas.Mostly human for now
- 05Sweep, scrub, wax, or polish floors, using brooms, mops, or powered scrubbing and waxing machines.Mostly human for now
- 06Replenish supplies, such as drinking glasses, linens, writing supplies, and bathroom items.Mostly human for now
- 07Clean rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaners and shampooers.Mostly human for now
- 08Wash windows, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, waxing and polishing as necessary.Mostly human for now
- 09Dust and polish furniture and equipment.Mostly human for now
- 10Disinfect equipment and supplies, using germicides or steam-operated sterilizers.Mostly human for now
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
0%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 1% 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 77% 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
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Keep storage areas and carts well-stocked, clean, and tidy.
- Carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts.
- Clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met.