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O*NET detailed work activityOperate office equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
14 jobs22 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Operate office equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 22 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Operate office machines, such as photocopiers and scanners, facsimile machines, voice mail systems, and personal computers.
- Operate 10-key calculators, typewriters, and copy machines to perform calculations and produce documents.
- Operate office equipment, such as voice mail messaging systems, and use word processing, spreadsheet, or other software applications to prepare reports, invoices, financial statements, letters, case histories, or medical records.
- Operate office machines such as high speed business photocopiers, readers, scanners, addressing machines, stencil-cutting machines, microfilm readers or printers, folding and inserting machines, bursters, and binder machines.
- Make photocopies of correspondence, documents, and other printed matter.
- Print and make copies of work.
- Load machines with materials such as blank paper or film.
- Operate office equipment, such as fax machines, copiers, or phone systems and arrange for repairs when equipment malfunctions.
- Operate auxiliary machines such as collators, pad and tablet making machines, staplers, and paper punching, folding, cutting, and perforating machines.
- Make copies of correspondence or other printed material.
- Place original copies in feed trays, feed originals into feed rolls, or position originals on tables beneath camera lenses.
- Operate typing, adding, calculating, or billing machines.
- Operate and resupply printers and computers, changing print wheels or fluid cartridges, adding paper, and loading blank tapes, cards, or disks into equipment.
- Load machines with required input or output media, such as paper, cards, disks, tape, or Braille media.
- Perform general office or clerical work, such as filing materials, operating duplicating machines, or running errands.
- Operate and maintain audio-visual equipment.
- Operate embossing machines or typewriters to make corrections, additions, and changes to address plates.
- Operate mechanized files that rotate to bring needed records to a particular location.
- Load machines with statements, cancelled checks, or envelopes to prepare statements for distribution to customers or stuff envelopes by hand.
- Retrieve documents stored in microfilm or microfiche and place them in viewers for reading.
- Duplicate records for distribution to branch offices.