Refer to the course profile to see how this assessment item relates to the course learning outcomes. This assignment is designed to stimulate critical thinking outside of the classroom by requiring students to write a formal academic report. You will need to follow the ARE process described in chapters 2 and 3 of Your Business Degree 2 (prescribed textbook for COIT20233/COIT20249) to analyse the assessment task, research relevant information, evaluate the information you find and to write an academic report in which you present your findings or outcomes and make recommendations for future practice. This assessment task will assess your skills in critical thinking, researching information, forming an opinion, academic writing, logical ordering of ideas and your ability to support your arguments with quotes from literature. These objectives will be measured by the 'closeness of fit' to meeting the assessment task, assessment requirements and assessment criteria listed below. Please note that there is a wealth of material available on the Libguide website for this course that you should use to help you gather and evaluate relevant information for writing your report. Assessment task Students are required to write an academic report as per the format outlined in chapter 5 of the textbook. The report must follow Harvard citation and referencing guidelines. Please note that the prescribed textbook uses APA referencing guidelines. See also the Referencing Style subsection below. The report is to be based on the following case study scenario about the effects of the increased automation of white-collar jobs. Last year the Australian Financial Review wrote an article about a report published by the Australian Government's Department of Industry entitled Australian Industry Report 2014. They argued that "as many as half a million accountants, supermarket cashiers, secretaries, typists and bank tellers in what are largely white-collar jobs are threatened by automation" according to modelling by the Department of Industry (Greber, 2014, para. 1). However, the Department of Industry's chief economist, Mark Cully, said that "growing fears that robots and artificial intelligence could cast millions from the middle-class into unemployment and poverty are overblown" and that a "large range of relatively high-skilled jobs likely to be lost only supported the need for Australians and governments to embrace structural change that guarantees economic growth and prosperity" (Greber, 2014, para. 2-3). The Australian Industry Report 2014