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Plan work activities

Work activity · O*NET

Plan work activities is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work. 73 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Prepare detailed work plans
  • Plan production or operational procedures or sequences
  • Develop detailed project plans
  • Plan work procedures
  • Plan work operations
  • Plan flight operations
  • Plan layout of construction, installation, or repairs
  • Adjust routes or speeds as necessary

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 92.3% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 36.4% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 73.5% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 83rd pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Airfield Operations Specialists 4
First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand 3
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers 3
Information Technology Project Managers 3
Air Traffic Controllers 2
Commercial Pilots 2
Materials Engineers 2
Opticians, Dispensing 2
Power Distributors and Dispatchers 2
Project Management Specialists 2
Transportation Engineers 2
Agricultural Engineers 1
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 1
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval 1
Architectural and Civil Drafters 1
Automotive Body and Related Repairers 1
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics 1
Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers 1
Biostatisticians 1
Brickmasons and Blockmasons 1
Calibration Technologists and Technicians 1
Carpet Installers 1
Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians 1
Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers 1
Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 1
Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 1
Database Administrators 1
Digital Forensics Analysts 1
Electrical and Electronics Drafters 1
Electricians 1
Engine and Other Machine Assemblers 1
Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians 1
Environmental Engineers 1
Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers 1
First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators 1
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 1
Fuel Cell Engineers 1
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 1
Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians 1
Intelligence Analysts 1

Showing 40 of 73 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 38 occupations in occupations that perform Plan work activities.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Carpet Installers Brickmasons and Blockmasons Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic Engine and Other Machine Assemblers Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers Commercial Pilots Opticians, Dispensing First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers Power Distributors and Dispatchers Airfield Operations Specialists First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians Agricultural Engineers Intelligence Analysts Project Management Specialists AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Plan work activities., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Plan work activities." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/plan-work-activities

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Plan work activities. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/plan-work-activities

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-plan-work-activities,
  title  = {Plan work activities},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/plan-work-activities}
}

Citations name the underlying public dataset releases — they reflect what this page is built from, not just the URL.