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Prof. Arun Sundararajan on Uber and the changing nature of employment

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'I do think we are defining a new category of work that isn’t full-time employment but is not running your own business either,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s business school who has studied the rise of the so-called on-demand economy, and who is mainly optimistic about its prospects. ... 'We may end up with a future in which a fraction of the work force would do a portfolio of things to generate an income — you could be an Uber driver, an Instacart shopper, an Airbnb host and a Taskrabbit,' Dr. Sundararajan said."

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