If you worked for a company that offered the convenience of a microchip implanted in your hand, would you get it? A company in Wisconsin is about to join the growing trend
A company in Wisconsin is about to become the first in the US to offer microchip implants to its employees.
Three Square Market Chief Executive Officer Todd Westby told KTSP. “It’s the next thing that’s inevitably going to happen, and we want to be a part of it.”
The company designs software for electronic break room market that are commonly found in office complexes.
People are currently able to purchase items at the market using phones, but Westby wants to take things a step further and implant a microchip inside a person’s hand.
When employees buy items at a kiosk, instead of swiping a credit card they hold the hand with the chip and that pays for the purchase.
More than 50 employees are having the devices implanted starting next week. Each chip, which is implanted between a person’s thumb and forefinger, is about the size of a single grain of rice.
Along with purchasing market kiosk items, employees will be able to use the chip to get into the front door and log onto their computers.
Each chip costs $300, which is picked up by the company.
Westby added the data is both encrypted and secure.
The embedded chip uses the same sort of near-field communications technology that enables people to hold up their phones to a device to make payments.
No employees at Three Square Market will be required to get the chip implant.