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Contact With Others

Work context · O*NET

Contact With Others 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 much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?." It is rated for 894 occupations, which average 4.33 out of 5 (high 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 4.33 / 5 Mean across all 894 rated occupations
Range across occupations 2.57–5.00 Lowest to highest occupation rating (spread 2.43)
Intensity vs. other dimensions 97th 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
Chiropractors 5.00
Family Medicine Physicians 5.00
First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers 5.00
Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan 5.00
Medical Assistants 5.00
Parts Salespersons 5.00
Patient Representatives 5.00
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products 5.00
Spa Managers 5.00
Telephone Operators 5.00
Urologists 5.00
Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric 4.99
Public Safety Telecommunicators 4.99
Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks 4.99
Skincare Specialists 4.99
Special Education Teachers, Secondary School 4.99
Speech-Language Pathologists 4.99
Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare 4.98
First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers 4.98
Obstetricians and Gynecologists 4.98
Special Education Teachers, Preschool 4.98
Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service 4.98
Dental Hygienists 4.97
Emergency Medicine Physicians 4.97
Loan Interviewers and Clerks 4.97

Occupations where it's lowest

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

Occupation Rating Score
Craft Artists 2.57
Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers 2.68
Fallers 2.84
Environmental Economists 2.85
Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers 2.85
Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators 3.04
Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 3.12
Rock Splitters, Quarry 3.18
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers 3.19
Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners 3.19
Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 3.21
Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers 3.23
Dental Laboratory Technicians 3.24
Cooks, Fast Food 3.27
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers 3.27
Furniture Finishers 3.30
Model Makers, Metal and Plastic 3.31
Business Intelligence Analysts 3.32
Animal Breeders 3.33
Tapers 3.34
Mathematicians 3.35
Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 3.35
Cytotechnologists 3.36
Sewers, Hand 3.36
Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing 3.38

How AI is used by roles where contact with others 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). 57.3% of the 889 occupations where this condition is present carry observed AI-usage data (509 roles).

Across those roles, 45.6% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 32.1% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.55 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 29.7% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 23.4% you and AI go back and forth
learning 19.4% you ask AI to explain or teach
validation 2.7% you do it; AI checks your work
feedback loop 2.4% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback

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
English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 4.4 63.2% 4.0/5
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary 4.4 63.2% 4.0/5
Editors 4.5 68.2% 4.0/5
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors 4.9 70.6% 4.0/5
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 4.0 65.2% 3.0/5
Office Clerks, General 4.7 36.5% 3.0/5
Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary 4.8 66.2% 3.3/5
Technical Writers 4.1 54.2% 4.0/5
Instructional Coordinators 4.8 53.1% 4.0/5
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 4.8 66.2% 3.5/5
Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary 4.3 66.8% 3.3/5
Education Teachers, Postsecondary 4.5 65.3% 3.5/5

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. "Contact With Others." 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/contact-with-others

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Singulariki. (2026). Contact With Others. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/work-context/contact-with-others

BibTeX
@misc{singulariki-contact-with-others,
  title  = {Contact With Others},
  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/contact-with-others}
}

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