Prepare rental or lease agreements, specifying charges and payment procedures for use of machinery, tools, or other items.

“Prepare rental or lease agreements, specifying charges and payment procedures for use of machinery, tools, or other items.” is a supplemental task performed by First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers. Among the occupation's 18 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#18 most important). About 30% 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.

• Prepare documentation for contracts, applications, or permits. in Documenting/Recording Information

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

• Monitor sales staff performance to ensure that goals are met. · importance 4.3
• Provide staff with assistance in performing difficult or complicated duties. · importance 4.1
• Formulate pricing policies on merchandise according to profitability requirements. · importance 4.1
• Visit retailers and sales representatives to promote products and gather information. · importance 4.1
• Prepare sales and inventory reports for management and budget departments. · importance 4.0
• Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or performing specific services. · importance 4.0
• Examine products purchased for resale or received for storage to determine product condition. · importance 3.9
• Examine merchandise to ensure correct pricing and display, and that it functions as advertised. · importance 3.9
• Listen to and resolve customer complaints regarding services, products, or personnel. · importance 3.9
• Keep records pertaining to purchases, sales, and requisitions. · importance 3.9
• Hire, train, and evaluate personnel. · importance 3.9
• Analyze details of sales territories to assess their growth potential and to set quotas. · importance 3.8
• Confer with company officials to develop methods and procedures to increase sales, expand markets, and promote business. · importance 3.8
• Inventory stock and reorder when inventories drop to specified levels. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers 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.

@misc{singulariki-task-9675,
  title  = {Prepare rental or lease agreements, specifying charges and payment procedures for use of machinery, tools, or other items.},
  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-9675}
}