Jowan Österlund, founder of Biohax, holds a microchip implant (Biohax)
In August, a Wisconsin company, Three Square Market, made news when 50 of its employees at its headquarters volunteered to have a chip injected into their hand.
And now, it appears the practice has caught on "across the pond," as they say, according to this Metro story by Jeff Parsons:
Biohax, a Swedish company that provides human chip implants, told the Daily Telegraph it was ‘in talks’ with a number of UK legal and financial firms to implant staff with the devices.
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Apparently, one client has ‘hundreds of thousands of employees’ and probably believes that injecting chips into their workers is easier than issuing them with a security pass.
‘These companies have sensitive documents they are dealing with,” Jowan Österlund, the founder of Biohax, told the paper.
‘[The chips] would allow them to set restrictions for whoever,’ Österlund, a former professional body piercer, said.
Naturally, not everyone is on board with this idea. A spokesperson for the Confederation of British Industry told the Guardian: ‘While technology is changing the way we work, this makes for distinctly uncomfortable reading.
‘Firms should be concentrating on rather more immediate priorities and focusing on engaging their employees.’
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