# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses how a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus could impact consumers who rely on the gig economy

1 Faculty News March 3, 2020 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [MarketPlace](https://www.marketplace.org/2020/03/03/gig-workers-are-vulnerable-in-an-outbreak/) -- "These days we think nothing of getting into a stranger’s car or hiring someone to pick up a chicken at the grocery store. The gig economy has become enmeshed in our daily lives, said NYU business professor [Arun Sundararajan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan). 'Something that people are realizing as they consider the prospect of a more widespread outbreak is the extent to which they rely on immediacy today,' he said. 'If you don’t have something, you press a button.'”

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