Employee badge monitors location & conversation

A company based in Boston, US, has used technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and transformed it into a badge that hangs clips onto a lanyard – The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

It contains a pair of microphones conducting real-time voice analysis and sensors that track location everywhere - except the bathroom.  

Ben Waber, CEO of employee analytics company Humanyze, predicted: “Within three or four years, every single ID badge is going to have these sensors.

"We are only scratching the surface right now."