Efficiency

These workers are signing up to get a microchip implant for their company

The technology will allow for contactless logins and purchases at the office.

Efficiency

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The number of employees, out of 80, at a Wisconsin company who volunteered to have an RFID chip implanted in their hand.
Efficiency

These workers are signing up to get a microchip implant for their company

The technology will allow for contactless logins and purchases at the office.

Employees at Three Square Market, a Wisconsin company that provides self-checkout convenience stores for offices, are getting microchips implanted to make things at work slightly easier.

The chips, which are about the size of a grain of rice, will allow workers to “make purchases in the company’s break room market, open doors, login to computers, use copy machines, among other things,” according to the company’s website. The chips use RFID technology, which is also used in pet microchips and “smart” badges that open doors.

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the story is the eagerness with which employees signed up for the minor surgery. More than 60 percent of the company chose to get chipped, according to the New York Times.

“It was pretty much 100 percent yes right from the get-go for me,” Sam Bengtson, a software engineer, told the Times. “In the next five to 10 years, this is going to be something that isn’t scoffed at so much, or is more normal. So I like to jump on the bandwagon with these kind of things early, just to say that I have it.”

The implant is FDA approved and was provided by the Swedish startup Biohax.