Will AI replace Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping?
AI reaches a large part of this job’s work.
47/100
High exposure
More exposed to AI than 74% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 34% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 80% of the work
What the job involves
Compile and keep personnel records. Record data for each employee, such as address, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports, and date of and reason for termination. May prepare reports for employment records, file employment records, or search employee files and furnish information to authorized persons.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(7)
- Explain company personnel policies, benefits, and procedures to employees or job applicants.
- Process, verify, and maintain personnel related documentation, including staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance evaluations, classifications, and employee leaves of absence.
- Answer questions regarding examinations, eligibility, salaries, benefits, and other pertinent information.
- Inform job applicants of their acceptance or rejection of employment.
- Compile and prepare reports and documents pertaining to personnel activities.
and 2 more
Within reach(8)
- Examine employee files to answer inquiries and provide information for personnel actions.
- Record data for each employee, including such information as addresses, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on performance, and dates of and reasons for terminations.
- Gather personnel records from other departments or employees.
- Search employee files to obtain information for authorized persons and organizations, such as credit bureaus and finance companies.
- Interview job applicants to obtain and verify information used to screen and evaluate them.
and 3 more
Out of reach(4)
- Provide assistance in administering employee benefit programs and worker's compensation plans.
- Prepare and set up for new employee orientations.
- Request information from law enforcement officials, previous employers, and other references to determine applicants' employment acceptability.
- Arrange for in-house and external training activities.
Also called
Personnel Clerk · Human Resources Clerk (HR Clerk) · HR Clerk · Assignment Clerk · Employment Clerk · Identification Clerk · Human Resources Administrative Assistant (HR Administrative Assistant) · Human Resources Assistant (HR Assistant)
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics