Firm to embed microchips into workers to monitor them

Epicenter is to embed microchips into approximately 150 workers so it can monitor toilet breaks and how long they work, amongst other things, the New York Post reports.  

Patrick Mesterton, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the technology company, claimed to the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) that the chips would simplify life. The chips allow workers to open doors, use office technology and even pay for their lunch.

“You can do airline fares with it, you can also go to your local gym,” he explained, “so it basically replaces a lot of things you have other communication devices for, whether it be credit cards, or keys, or things like that.”

Mesterton doesn’t believe the concept is as implausible as it may first appear. For example, he told ABC, artificial pacemakers have been around since 1958 (when Arne Larsson became the first to receive an implantable pacemaker).