Companies may start chipping their employees in a new trend

The UK-based businesses are now considering the option to chip their employees.

The news report which comes from The Telegraph states that the British businesses are thinking to place IT implants on all of their employees in order to foster ‘security.’ The news which started making rounds over the past week states that a number of UK companies had initiated talks with Biohax, a human chip implants company from Sweden.

Biohax, while in a conversation with ‘The Telegraph’, told that a number of firms mainly from the legal and financial arena from the UK were planning to roll-out micro implants that could be patched onto their employees in order to restrict their movements in the sensitive areas within the company’s offices.

“These companies have sensitive documents they are dealing with. [The chips] would allow them to set restrictions for whoever,” Jowan Österlund, the Founder and CEO of Biohax told the daily.

Biohax further told that the implant which would be about the size of a rice grain would cost £150 per pieces and would be implanted on to their employees. The company further mentioned that a notable financial services company with ‘hundreds of thousands of employees’ is also among the first users of this device.

Although the companies seem to opt this issue because of the security concerns, this also has initiated conversations among the pro-privacy and human rights activists. If these move is found to be successful, more and more companies from around the globe could move towards chipping their employees.