# Professor Arun Sundararajan argues that workplace benefits should be decoupled from employment

1 Faculty News July 25, 2015 ![PBS NewsHour logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030937.jpg?itok=l4_epy89)>

Excerpt from [PBS NewsHour](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/independent-contractor-schemes-face-federal-crackdown/) -- "We’re sort of in a phase where– the model of providing a few hours at a time, or providing to multiple platforms may, in fact, be the most economically efficient one. ... To me, the humane thing isn’t to make everybody a full-time employee, but to extend the safety net to cover people who have alternative forms of work."

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