Package materials or products.

Package materials or products. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 7 occupations and seen in 8 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Package objects. in Handling and Moving Objects .

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 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 1 (13%) 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 0.002% 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.

• Compound, package, and label pharmaceutical products, under direction of pharmacist. · Pharmacy Aides · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Bag or package purchases and wrap gifts. · Retail Salespersons · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Remove materials and products from machines and equipment, and place them in boxes, trucks or conveyors, using hand tools and moving devices. · Machine Feeders and Offbearers · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Wrap and secure goods using pads, packing paper, containers, or straps. · Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Fasten, package, or stack materials and products, using hand tools and fastening equipment. · Machine Feeders and Offbearers · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Collect artifacts made of stone, bone, metal, and other materials, placing them in bags and marking them to show where they were found. · Anthropologists and Archeologists · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Pack containers and re-pack damaged containers. · Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand · importance 3.3 · no direct exposure
• Inventory, pack, and remove items left behind by former residents. · Residential Advisors · importance 2.8 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Pharmacy Aides
• Retail Salespersons
• Machine Feeders and Offbearers
• Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
• Anthropologists and Archeologists
• Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
• Residential Advisors

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  = {Package materials or products.},
  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},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/package-materials-or-products}
}