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Package materials or products

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 Package objects, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Compound, package, and label pharmaceutical products, under direction of pharmacist.Stays human Pharmacy Aides
• Fasten, package, or stack materials and products, using hand tools and fastening equipment.Stays human Machine Feeders and Offbearers
• Remove materials and products from machines and equipment, and place them in boxes, trucks or conveyors, using hand tools and moving devices.Stays human Machine Feeders and Offbearers
• Bag or package purchases and wrap gifts.Stays human Retail Salespersons
• Pack containers and re-pack damaged containers.Stays human Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Wrap and secure goods using pads, packing paper, containers, or straps.Stays human Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
• Inventory, pack, and remove items left behind by former residents.Stays human Residential Advisors
• Collect artifacts made of stone, bone, metal, and other materials, placing them in bags and marking them to show where they were found.Stays human Anthropologists and Archeologists