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Conflict Situations

Work context · O*NET

Conflict Situations is a work-context dimension in the O*NET database — one of the standardized conditions O*NET uses to describe the environment a job is done in , grouped under Interpersonal Relationships. O*NET defines it by asking workers: "How frequently are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job?." It is rated for 894 occupations, which average 2.88 out of 5 (moderate relative to other context dimensions).

How it's measured

O*NET rates each occupation on this dimension on a 1–5 context-importance scale (the CX scale), where higher means the condition is a more frequent or more central part of the work. The figures on this page are those occupation-level ratings — a description of working conditions as workers report them, not a judgment about pay, difficulty, or whether a job is "good."

Economy-wide average 2.88 / 5 Mean across all 894 rated occupations
Range across occupations 1.42–4.68 Lowest to highest occupation rating (spread 3.26)
Intensity vs. other dimensions 48th pct Where this dimension's average ranks among all O*NET work-context dimensions

Occupations where it's highest

The occupations that rate this condition strongest on the 1–5 scale.

Occupation Rating Score
Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 4.68
Public Safety Telecommunicators 4.68
Special Education Teachers, Middle School 4.59
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 4.53
First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers 4.51
Emergency Medicine Physicians 4.50
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists 4.47
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 4.43
Air Traffic Controllers 4.40
Flight Attendants 4.39
Correctional Officers and Jailers 4.37
Animal Control Workers 4.35
Special Education Teachers, Secondary School 4.31
First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers 4.28
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 4.23
Transit and Railroad Police 4.21
Hospitalists 4.20
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 4.17
Psychiatric Technicians 4.17
Postmasters and Mail Superintendents 4.15
Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks 4.13
Residential Advisors 4.13
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors 4.11
Psychiatric Aides 4.06
Acute Care Nurses 4.05

Occupations where it's lowest

The occupations that rate this condition weakest — where it is rarely part of the work.

Occupation Rating Score
Cutters and Trimmers, Hand 1.42
Rock Splitters, Quarry 1.43
Manicurists and Pedicurists 1.44
Animal Breeders 1.65
Food Preparation Workers 1.65
Slaughterers and Meat Packers 1.71
Software Developers 1.72
Tile and Stone Setters 1.72
Food Batchmakers 1.73
Models 1.73
Fallers 1.77
Craft Artists 1.78
Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 1.78
Social Science Research Assistants 1.82
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 1.84
Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles 1.84
Watch and Clock Repairers 1.86
Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters 1.88
Floor Sanders and Finishers 1.90
Mathematicians 1.90
Shampooers 1.90
Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians 1.91
Biological Technicians 1.92
Model Makers, Metal and Plastic 1.92
Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers 1.92

How AI is used by roles where conflict situations is central

A working condition is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the occupations where it is most central and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across the roles that rate this condition 3 or higher (CX-rating-weighted). 60.1% of the 353 occupations where this condition is present carry observed AI-usage data (212 roles).

Across those roles, 45.8% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 30.2% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.53 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 27.9% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 22.3% you and AI go back and forth
learning 21.6% you ask AI to explain or teach
feedback loop 2.3% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback
validation 1.9% you do it; AI checks your work

Roles behind this signal

The occupations where this condition is most central and that also have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Condition (1–5) Works with AI Autonomy
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors 4.1 70.6% 4.0/5
Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary 3.1 66.2% 3.3/5
Instructional Coordinators 3.0 53.1% 4.0/5
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 3.1 66.2% 3.5/5
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary 3.4 65.8% 3.8/5
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 3.0 67.0% 4.0/5
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 3.0 36.3% 3.0/5
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 3.4 62.3% 4.0/5
Mental Health Counselors 3.8 70.6% 4.0/5
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education 3.1 62.8% 4.0/5
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 3.5 51.1% 3.0/5
Clergy 3.4 60.3% 4.0/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. This is a role-weighted projection from AEI-linked occupations where this condition is central, not a direct measurement of AI use for the condition itself. Shares are weighted by how central the condition is to each role; some conversations are left unclassified by Anthropic's taxonomy, so shares need not sum to 100.

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.

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

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Singulariki. "Conflict Situations." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27). Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/work-context/conflict-situations

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Singulariki. (2026). Conflict Situations. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/work-context/conflict-situations

BibTeX
@misc{singulariki-conflict-situations,
  title  = {Conflict Situations},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27). Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/work-context/conflict-situations}
}

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