Q. Do you consider coordinating with other people to be superficial?Coordinating with other people and persuading other people fall outside the superficial box. Those two questions should get a "no." That leaves factual information exchange to be the focal point of potentially superficial. We used office clerks, general (SOC 43-9061) in the most recent articles, so we continue to use them as illustrative here.
Q. Do you consider factual information exchange to be superficial?
Q. Do you consider gentle persuading to be superficial?
43-9061.00 (office clerks, general)
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001030
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; type of interaction with regular contacts is factual info exchange
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: type of interaction with regular contacts is factual info exchange
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 30.7 |
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001036
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; type of interaction with other contacts is factual info exchange
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: type of interaction with other contacts is factual info exchange
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 51.2 |
As between the two types of contacts, interacting with regular contacts is limited to factual information exchange in a smaller percentage of jobs -- general office clerks coordinate or persuade in the majority of jobs.
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001031
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; type of interaction with regular contacts is coordinating
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: type of interaction with regular contacts is coordinating
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 62.8 |
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001032
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; type of interaction with regular contacts is gentle persuading
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: type of interaction with regular contacts is gentle persuading
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 6 |
Having suspected and then confirmed the inference, we can confidently state that the data shows that 30.7% of general office clerks are limited to factual information exchange as an expected part of the job performance. We now turn to frequency.
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001050
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; frequency of contact with regular contacts is continuous
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: frequency of contact with regular contacts is continuous
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 21.6 |
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001051
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; frequency of contact with regular contacts is more than once per hour
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: frequency of contact with regular contacts is more than once per hour
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 53.4 |
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001052
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; frequency of contact with regular contacts is more than once per day
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: frequency of contact with regular contacts is more than once per day
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 21.5 |
The data change the terminology. Continuous translates over to constant easily. More than once per hour is the corollary for frequent and more than once per day is the corollary for occasional. If we use contact with other contacts, we get the phrase for seldom or never:
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001048
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; frequency of contact with other contacts is no more than once per day, including never
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: frequency of contact with other contacts is no more than once per day, including never
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 31.9 |
Getting to that definition has the serendipity of providing a hold on how many general office clerks have no contact with the public -- other contacts.
Now we get to the point where commonsense controls. Who is more likely to have contact with coworkers and supervisors to coordinate activity, unskilled or skilled workers? Who is more likely to have their work checked by a coworker or supervisor regularly during the workday, unskilled or skilled workers? This is our last data point for this discussion:
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001075
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; work review is more than once a day
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: work review is more than once a day
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 32.2 |
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001076
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; work review is once per day
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: work review is once per day
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 29.8 |
Series ID: ORUC1000075800001077
Not seasonally adjusted
Series Title: % of office clerks, general; work review is at least weekly
Requirement: Cognitive And Mental Requirements
Occupation: office clerks, general
Estimate: work review is at least weekly
| Year | Period | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Annual | 24.7 |
Less than a quarter have their work checked less than daily; less than a third have their work checked daily; and a third get checked more than daily. We have three competing assumptions to make about the world of work:
1. Unskilled workers have less contact with coworkers and supervisors compared to skilled or semi-skilled workers.
2. Unskilled workers have more contact with coworkers and supervisors compared to skilled or semi-skilled workers.
3. Unskilled workers have about the same contact with coworkers and supervisors compared to skilled or semi-skilled workers.
Absent a statistical basis for an assumption, the default has to be #3. We go back to the OOH for the raw job numbers:
43-9061 Office clerks, general
Typical Education Needed
|
High school diploma or equivalent
|
Work Experience in a Related Occupation
|
None
|
Typical On-The-Job Training Needed to Attain Competency
|
Short-term on-the-job training
|
2016 Employment
|
3,117,700
|
43-9061.00 (office clerks, general)
|
# of Jobs
|
% Unskilled
|
# Unskilled
|
|
3,117,700
|
35.3%
|
1,100,548
|
|
# Unskilled
|
% Fact Info Ex.
|
# Fact Info Ex.
|
|
1,100,548
|
30.7%
|
337,868
|
|
# Fact Info Ex.
|
% > Daily
|
# > Daily
|
|
337,868
|
21.5%
|
72,642
|
|
# Unskilled
|
% Light
|
# Light
|
|
72,642
|
41.0%
|
29,783
|
|
# Light
|
% ≤ 6 hour sitting
|
# ≤ 6 hour sitting
|
|
29,783
|
25.0%
|
7,446
|
|
# Unskilled
|
% Sedentary
|
# Sedentary
|
|
72,642
|
32.8%
|
23,826
|
|
# Sedentary
|
% ≤ 6 hour sitting
|
# ≤ 6 hour sitting
|
|
23,826
|
25.0%
|
5,957
|
If we have an occasional superficial contact with others with either a sedentary or light residual functional capacity, the number of jobs drops below 30,000 in both exertion levels. Imposing a limitation to six hours of sitting and the number of jobs becomes insignificant in most circuits.
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