{"id":71237,"date":"2017-07-24T21:02:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T04:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/for-the-first-time-a-us-company-is-implanting-microchips-in-its-employees"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:06","slug":"for-the-first-time-a-us-company-is-implanting-microchips-in-its-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/for-the-first-time-a-us-company-is-implanting-microchips-in-its-employees","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, a US Company Is Implanting Microchips in Its Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-a-us-company-is-implanting-microchips-in-its-employees.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re always hearing how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-statistics-reveal-the-scale-of-robots-replacing-human-workers\">robots are going to take our jobs<\/a>, but there might be a way of preventing that grim future from happening: by becoming workplace cyborgs first.<\/p>\n<p>A company in Wisconsin has become the first in the US to roll out microchip implants for all its employees, and says it\u2019s expecting over 50 of its staff members to be voluntarily \u2018chipped\u2019 next week.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, which is entirely optional for employees at snack stall supplier Three Square Market (32M), will implant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio-frequency_identification\">radio-frequency identification<\/a> (RFID) chips in staff members\u2019 hands in between their thumb and forefinger.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/for-the-first-time-a-us-company-is-implanting-microchips-in-its-employees\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/for-the-first-time-a-us-company-...-employees<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re always hearing how robots are going to take our jobs, but there might be a way of preventing that grim future from happening: by becoming workplace cyborgs first. A company in Wisconsin has become the first in the US to roll out microchip implants for all its employees, and says it\u2019s expecting over 50 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71245,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71237\/revisions\/71245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}