# Professor Arun Sundararajan on the potential consequences of classifying Uber drivers as employees

1 Faculty News July 6, 2015 ![The New Yorker logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032750.jpg?itok=hERliZMl)>

Excerpt from [The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/06/gigs-with-benefits) -- "[Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a business-school professor at N.Y.U. and an expert on the sharing economy, told me, 'It’s very unlikely drivers’ take-home pay would rise. There also would be fewer drivers. They would be able to drive more hours, but they’d have less flexibility in how they worked.'"

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