# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the need for a social safety net for the growing independent workforce

1 Faculty News January 23, 2018 ![NPR logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030855.jpg?itok=Ti1_93MD)>

Excerpt from [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/579720874/will-work-for-no-benefits-the-challenges-of-being-in-the-new-contract-workforce) -- "But adapting a new safety net for the new workforce will take time, says [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a management professor at New York University. And he says the transition could be messy. 'Full-time employment didn't sort of come packaged with all of these wonderful things that we now associate with it; it was built sort of painstakingly over 100 years,' Sundararajan says."

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