Read work orders to determine material or setup requirements.

Read work orders to determine material or setup requirements. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 5 occupations and seen in 5 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Read documents or materials to inform work processes. in Getting Information .

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 5 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 5 (100%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

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.

• Read job orders to determine the type of work to be done, the quantities to be produced, and the materials needed. · Office Machine Operators, Except Computer · importance 4.5 · direct LLM exposure
• Study layout or other design instructions to determine work to be done and sequence of operations. · Desktop Publishers · importance 4.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Review documents, such as production schedules, work orders, or staffing tables, to determine personnel or materials requirements or material priorities. · Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks · importance 4.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise. · Stockers and Order Fillers · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Read production orders to determine types and sizes of items scheduled for printing and mailing. · Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service · importance 3.9 · direct LLM exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
• Desktop Publishers
• Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
• Stockers and Order Fillers
• Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service

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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-read-work-orders-to-determine-material-or-setup-requirements,
  title  = {Read work orders to determine material or setup requirements.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/read-work-orders-to-determine-material-or-setup-requirements}
}