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Business Continuity Planners

Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.

$83,050 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).

now
5%

of the working time. Estimate.

Kinds of work
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18%

Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.

Half the desk work within reach
November 2027

On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.

Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030

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What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .

At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.

How far this has come

With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 2%. Today's estimate: 5%.

0%5%10%2023202420252026GPT-4, March 2023: 0% within reachGPT-4 Turbo (Nov 2023), November 2023: 0% within reachGPT-4o, May 2024: 0% within reachClaude 3.5 Sonnet (June 2024), June 2024: 0% within reacho1-preview, September 2024: 0% within reachClaude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024), October 2024: 0% within reacho1, December 2024: 0% within reachClaude 3.7 Sonnet, February 2025: 0% within reacho3, April 2025: 0% within reachGPT-5, August 2025: 0% within reachGemini 3 Pro, November 2025: 0% within reachClaude Opus 4.5, November 2025: 0% within reachGPT-5.2, December 2025: 0% within reachClaude Opus 4.6, February 2026: 0% within reachClaude Mythos Preview (early), April 2026: 2% within reachToday (estimate), September 2026: 5% within reach
Each step is a new best model measured by METR, four in five; the dashed end is today's estimate. Point at a dot for the model.

A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.

The tasks

Sorted by . 21 tasks from .

TaskKind
Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 20%2.1 work days6.7 h to 4.2 work days0%Half by Jan 2028
Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.Done more than weekly by most who do it. 13%3.3 work days6.7 h to 2.1 work weeks0%Half by Oct 2028
Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.Done more than monthly by most who do it. AI observed on this task.12%6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days8%Half by Sep 2027
Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 11%1 work day3.3 h to 2.1 work days5%Half by Jul 2027
Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.Done more than monthly by most who do it. 8%6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days8%Half by Sep 2027
Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.Done more than monthly by most who do it. 8%1.7 work days4.2 h to 4.2 work days1%Half by Jan 2028
Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 7%2.5 work days1 work day to 1 work week0%Half by Feb 2028
Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 4%1.7 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days2%Half by Feb 2028
Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.Done more than monthly by most who do it.4%6.7 h2.5 h to 2.5 work days9%Half by Jul 2027
Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 3%1 work day3.3 h to 2.5 work days5%Half by Jul 2027
Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 2%6.7 h2.5 h to 2.1 work days10%Half by Jun 2027
Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.Done more than yearly by most who do it. 2%6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days8%Half by Sep 2027

Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.

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