# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the future of employment and benefits, from his book, "The Sharing Economy"

1 Faculty News July 1, 2016 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/01/what-happens-when-we-all-become-our-own-bosses/) -- "Full-time employment, in other words, means something a lot better than could have been the case, [Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) argues. And it’ll take us time to figure out how to do the same for work in the new crowd-based capitalism. 'When we transition to the individual-is-an-owner model,' he adds, 'you’re starting at a better place fundamentally.'"

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