Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.

“Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.” is a core task performed by Business Continuity Planners. Among the occupation's 21 rated tasks, workers place it 17th by importance (#5 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Develop contingency or emergency response plans. in Thinking Creatively

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance. · importance 4.7
• Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure. · importance 4.6
• Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans. · importance 4.5
• Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers. · importance 4.5
• Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints. · importance 4.3
• Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives. · importance 4.3
• Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans. · importance 4.3
• Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements. · importance 4.2
• Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations. · importance 4.1
• Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials. · importance 4.1
• Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods. · importance 4.0
• Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection. · importance 3.9
• Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions. · importance 3.9
• Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Business Continuity Planners page.

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.

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  title  = {Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.},
  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/tasks/task-15951}
}