Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping vs First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping carries the higher exposed share at 51.3% against 45.8%, a gap of 5.5 points. The difference is driven by capability: a current system can simply produce more of the first job's work product than the second's. Release v2026.Q3.
| Occupation | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Capability | Friction | Median pay | Rank | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping | 51.3% | 26.4% | 22.3% | 0.78 | 0.36 | $50,610 | 100 | exposed |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 45.8% | 25.0% | 29.2% | 0.71 | 0.38 | $69,500 | 156 | exposed |
What stands in the way, in each
Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.78 of 1 and friction at 0.36 of 1.
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.71 of 1 and friction at 0.38 of 1.
Capability asks whether a generally available system can produce the work product at all. Friction asks what stops it finishing the job: physical work, being present, being accountable, unseen context, or the cost of checking the output. The rubric is here.
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Exposure is not displacement. A higher score does not rank two jobs by how safe they are, and nothing here models adoption, employment or pay.