Confer with personnel to coordinate business operations.

Confer with personnel to coordinate business operations. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 9 occupations and seen in 11 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Communicate with others about business strategies. in Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 11 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 7 (64%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 2 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.005% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures. · Management Analysts · importance 4.5 · no direct exposure
• Confer with staff at a chosen event site to coordinate details. · Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Obtain information about customer needs or preferences by conferring with sales or purchasing personnel. · Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Consult with clients, vendors, personnel in other departments, or construction foremen to discuss and formulate estimates and resolve issues. · Cost Estimators · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Meet with job search committees or coordinators to explain the role of the equal opportunity coordinator, to provide resources for advertising, or to explain expectations for future contacts. · Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Collaborate with other departments as necessary to meet customer requirements, to take advantage of sales opportunities or, in the case of shortages, to minimize negative impacts on a business. · Logisticians · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Confer with staff, users, and vendors to discuss defective or unacceptable goods or services and determine corrective action. · Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Write and present strategies for recreational facility programming using customer or employee data. · Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Review catalogs, industry periodicals, directories, trade journals, and Internet sites and consult with other department personnel to locate necessary goods and services. · Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Confer with other financial engineers or analysts on trading strategies, market dynamics, or trading system performance to inform development of quantitative techniques. · Financial Quantitative Analysts · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Conduct sales meetings to introduce new merchandise. · Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products · importance 3.2 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Management Analysts
• Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
• Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
• Cost Estimators
• Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers
• Logisticians
• Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
• Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling
• Financial Quantitative Analysts

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Confer with personnel to coordinate business operations.},
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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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