# Professor Arun Sundararajan on the employment status of workers in the sharing economy

1 Faculty News June 23, 2015 ![Bloomberg View logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloombergview_0.jpg?itok=47DlvcFA)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg View](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-23/uber-drivers-are-neither-employees-nor-contractors) -- "'The \[employer/contractor legal\] dichotomy makes the provider-platform relationship more adversarial than it needs to be, which hurts platform culture,' Arun Sundararajan, a New York University professor who has done much research on what is often called the 'sharing economy,' said in an e-mail when I asked him about this. 'It introduces an artificial distance.'"

[Read more](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-23/uber-drivers-are-neither-employees-nor-contractors)

Additional coverage appeared on [Fusion](http://fusion.net/story/156255/uber-for-benefits-an-idea-which-could-transform-americas-economy/) and [Newsday](http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/uber-and-the-not-quite-independent-contractor-1.10572194).