Imagine a tiny microphone embedded in the ID badge dangling from the lanyard around your neck.
The mic is gauging the tone of your voice and how frequently you are contributing in meetings. Hidden accelerometers measure your body language and track how often you push away from your desk.
At the end of each day, the badge will have collected roughly four gigabytes worth of data about your office behaviour.
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Products offering biological monitoring are already on the market. A firm called Equivital makes a chest-mounted wearable sensor that measures heart rate, stress, breathing, skin temperature and body position. Humanyze, meanwhile, makes “smart work badges”, which contain microphones so employees' voice patterns can be analysed.
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More and more we move closer to Big Brother.
The mic is gauging the tone of your voice and how frequently you are contributing in meetings. Hidden accelerometers measure your body language and track how often you push away from your desk.
At the end of each day, the badge will have collected roughly four gigabytes worth of data about your office behaviour.
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Products offering biological monitoring are already on the market. A firm called Equivital makes a chest-mounted wearable sensor that measures heart rate, stress, breathing, skin temperature and body position. Humanyze, meanwhile, makes “smart work badges”, which contain microphones so employees' voice patterns can be analysed.
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More and more we move closer to Big Brother.
