Maintain office equipment in proper operating condition.

Maintain office equipment in proper operating condition. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 8 occupations and seen in 10 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Maintain tools or equipment. in Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment .

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 10 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 2 (20%) 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 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.655% 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.

• Perform administrative tasks, such as answering telephone calls, filing court documents, or maintaining office supplies or equipment. · Court, Municipal, and License Clerks · importance 4.7 · direct LLM exposure
• Clear jams in sorting equipment. · Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Clean machines, perform minor repairs, and report major repair needs. · Office Machine Operators, Except Computer · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Clear jams in sortation equipment. · Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Maintain library equipment, such as photocopiers, scanners, and computers, and instruct patrons in proper use of such equipment. · Library Assistants, Clerical · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure
• Clean and file master copies or plates. · Office Machine Operators, Except Computer · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure
• Operate and resupply printers and computers, changing print wheels or fluid cartridges, adding paper, and loading blank tapes, cards, or disks into equipment. · Word Processors and Typists · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure
• Fix minor problems, such as equipment jams, and notify repair personnel of major equipment problems. · Billing and Posting Clerks · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure
• Add ink, fill paste reservoirs, and change machine ribbons when necessary. · Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service · importance 3.3 · no direct exposure
• Troubleshoot problems involving office equipment, such as computer hardware and software. · Office Clerks, General · importance 3.0 · direct LLM exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Court, Municipal, and License Clerks
• Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators
• Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service
• Library Assistants, Clerical
• Word Processors and Typists
• Billing and Posting Clerks
• Office Clerks, General

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  = {Maintain office equipment in proper operating condition.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  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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