The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Occupation · SOC 11-3013.00 · Job Zone 3

AI exposure: Facilities Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate operations and functionalities of facilities and buildings. May include surrounding grounds or multiple facilities of an organization's campus.

Reading this score

computed

37.1% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Facilities Managers at the 65th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.5 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.

What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 11 tasks it averages 2.18 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.

The most exposed thing this job does is Prepare and review operational reports and schedules to ensure accuracy and efficiency, at 73.3%. The least is Oversee construction and renovation projects to improve efficiency and to ensure that..., at 6.7%. A gap of 66.7% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.

Within management occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 41.4% across the group's 56 roles, with 42 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.

What would move this score. Of 11 tasks, 9 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 2 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take systems being given deeper access to the organisation's own records and history, which is already happening. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.

Task by task

11 tasks, O*NET 31.0
TaskExposedAssistedUntouchedImportanceBand
Prepare and review operational reports and schedules to ensure accuracy and efficiency.73.3%26.7%0.0%3.72exposed
Plan, administer, and control budgets for contracts, equipment, and supplies.55.0%20.0%25.0%4.09exposed
Acquire, distribute and store supplies.50.0%25.0%25.0%3.47exposed
Dispose of, or oversee the disposal of, surplus or unclaimed property.50.0%25.0%25.0%3.04exposed
Manage leasing of facility space.50.0%25.0%25.0%3.62exposed
Participate in architectural and engineering planning and design, including space and installation management.40.0%35.0%25.0%4.04exposed
Set goals and deadlines for the department.40.0%35.0%25.0%3.98exposed
Monitor the facility to ensure that it remains safe, secure, and well-maintained.26.7%23.3%50.0%4.55exposed
Conduct classes to teach procedures to staff.26.7%23.3%50.0%3.92exposed
Oversee the maintenance and repair of machinery, equipment, and electrical and mechanical systems.10.0%15.0%75.0%4.50untouched
Oversee construction and renovation projects to improve efficiency and to ensure that facilities meet environmental, health, and security standards, and comply with government regulations.6.7%18.3%75.0%4.21untouched

Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.

Where the score comes from

judged

Every task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.

DimensionMeanScale
Capability2.550-4
Embodiment0.860-3
Presence0.730-3
Accountability1.320-3
Context2.180-3
Verification cost1.360-3

What this means in practice

Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.

Occupations either side of this one

The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.

Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.