# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the impact of how workers in the sharing economy are classified

Faculty News

— August 28, 2015

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Excerpt from [Politico](http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/08/as-the-labor-market-changes-congress-is-nowhere-to-be-found-000214) -- "'The right path forward would be to just recognize that there is a different kind of company-worker relationship that’s being created here,' [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a business professor at NYU who focuses on the sharing economy, told me a few months ago. 'That it’s somewhere in between from being an arm’s length independent contractor and being a full-time employee.'"

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