# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the recent court ruling allowing Uber to continue to classify its drivers as contractors

1 Faculty News April 23, 2016 ![Boston Globe logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030922.jpg?itok=mRV2WGZx)>

Excerpt from [The Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/04/22/uber-settlement-seen-win-for-gig-economy/qKjBGoXR6s97aKLPNkBKHI/story.html) -- "These workers may want the benefits that come with regular full-time jobs while maintaining the ability to work whatever hours they choose, said [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), author of the upcoming book 'The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism.' 'You’ve got this Faustian bargain: You either get the flexibility or you get the benefits,' said Sundararajan, a New York University professor. 'All we’ve got to do is come up with a funding model that allows both.'"

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