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ISCO 2411 · O*NET 13-2011.00 · codes unverified

Accountant

Automated continuously since the spreadsheet, and still growing. Which is either reassuring or a warning, depending on which decade you look at.

Chapter two, as the long view. This is a job that has been automated repeatedly and is still here. Read the essay →

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Resilience Shifting

A large share of the work is moving. The remaining core is narrower and more senior than it used to be.

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Scale, labels and thresholds are provisional. This is open question Q-02.

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How the score is made

Four declared inputs, never collapsed into one number. Assistance is kept apart from outright automation, because a tool that makes you faster and a tool that replaces you are not the same event. Physical work counts as shelter only to the extent robotics cannot reach it.

The full method is written out, including what it cannot tell you.

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Assisted
80

Higher is generally good news. It means more of the work gets faster without the work going away.

Done outright
72

This is the number most people mean when they say exposure. It is kept separate from assistance on purpose.

Physical
6

Protective only for as long as robotics cannot reach it. Read this one next to the robotics number, never alone.

Robotics reach
35

Low reach turns physical work into shelter. High reach turns it into the main exposure.

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What changes

Tasks moving to machines, in whole or in part.

  • Reconciliation, categorisation and ledger maintenance.
  • Standard statutory reporting.
  • First-pass analysis and variance commentary.

What stays human

Tasks that need a person, and why.

  • Signing something and meaning it.
  • Judgement where the rules do not cleanly apply.
  • Telling a client the thing they are avoiding.

What's new

Work that did not exist in this job ten years ago.

  • Assurance over automated and machine-generated records.
  • Advisory work at volumes the compliance workload used to block.
  • Explaining an automated figure to a regulator.

These three lists are editorial commentary, written against task-level data but not generated from it (OCC-05). Treat them as the author's reading, not as output.

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