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82.10
Class
Office administrative and support activities
SDMX: O8210
Class Level
4 Depth
0 Children
0 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes

✓ Includes

This class includes the provision of a combination of day-to-day office administrative services (for example, reception, financial planning, billing and record-keeping, personnel, postal and mailing services, and so on), for others on a contract or fee basis. This class includes: - document preparation (e.g. editing, proofreading, typing, word processing and pre-archiving) - other secretarial support services - transcription of documents - letter or résumé writing - provision of mailbox rental services and other postal and mailing services (e.g. pre-sorting, addressing) - duplicating - blueprinting - operation of photocopying machines for photocopying as a self-service - digitalisation of files (without any further processing of data) - formatting of e-books

+ Also Includes

This class also includes support activities for others on a contract or fee basis that are ongoing routine business support functions that businesses and organisations traditionally do for themselves.

✗ Excludes

Units classified in this class do not provide operating staff to carry out the complete administrative operations of a business. Units engaged in one particular aspect of these activities are classified according to that particular activity. This class excludes: - printing of documents (offset printing, quick printing, digital printing, etc.), see 18.12 - pre-press services, see 18.13 - storage of paper files, see 52.10 - courier services, see 53.20 - data processing and digitalisation of files associated with the further processing of data, see 63.10 - storage of data files, see 63.10 - rental of non-equipped offices, co-working spaces and fully-equipped offices, see 68.20 - activities of shared service centres (SSC) with strategic and managerial activities/centralised activities, see 70.10 - developing and organising mail advertising campaigns, see 73.11 - renting of containers to be used as offices, see 77.39 - public stenography services and specialised stenotype services (e.g. court reporting), see 82.99 - archiving of all kinds of documents (in paper or electronic forms), see 91.12

Who is this code for?

Verified: SEMANTIC_SECTION_MATRIX
Common titles: Cleaner, Janitor

Receptionists

SOC 2020:4216
Common titles: Receptionist, Front desk

Evidence: Representative SOC 2020 occupations for SIC Section N (Office administrative and support activities).

Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) — UK SIC 2026
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