Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs.

“Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs.” is a core task performed by Parking Attendants. Among the occupation's 18 rated tasks, workers place it 10th by importance (#9 most important). About 84% 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.

• Provide information to guests, clients, or customers. in Communicating with People Outside the Organization
• Provide general assistance to others, such as customers, patrons, or motorists. in Assisting and Caring for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

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 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.002% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 35% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: directive
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.3 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 98% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles. · importance 4.5
• Inspect vehicles to detect any damage. · importance 4.5
• Greet customers and open their car doors. · importance 4.5
• Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles. · importance 4.4
• Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips. · importance 4.1
• Patrol parking areas to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle or property thefts. · importance 4.0
• Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints. · importance 4.0
• Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots. · importance 4.0
• Keep parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized. · importance 3.8
• Direct motorists to parking areas or parking spaces, using hand signals or flashlights as necessary. · importance 3.8
• Escort customers to their vehicles to ensure their safety. · importance 3.6
• Perform maintenance on cars in storage to protect tires, batteries, or exteriors from deterioration. · importance 3.4
• Lift, position, and remove barricades to open or close parking areas. · importance 3.3
• Call emergency responders or the proper authorities and provide motorist assistance, such as giving directions or helping jump start a stalled vehicle. · importance 3.3

See all tasks on the Parking Attendants 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
• 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  = {Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs.},
  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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}