The fun police are attacking innocent bosses once again.
Ask any boss what life’s greatest pleasures are and you’ll get answer’s ranging from pressing a filthy mop into someone’s hand and saying “If you can lean you can clean,” to a cathartic scream of “You’re fired!” to cap off a stressful day.
But somewhere on the list is always going to be “surveilling those loafing freeloaders so they can’t rip me off!” Well bosses, I’m sorry to say the state of Washington is looking to ban a promising form of surveillance before you can even try it:it doesn’t know of anyone who has. But some innovators in the boss space are based in Washington—companies like, which is primarily sponsored by West Seattle’s Brianna Thomas, is actually pretty specific about what it would ban: “An employer may not request, require, or coerce any employee to have a microchip implanted in the employee for any reason,” it says—so it leaves room for employees to volunteer to be microchipped as long as they’re not asked to do so. And according to the bill, we’re talking about microchips that are “subcutaneously implanted in the body of an individual”—yes, like the ones in dogs. Notably, encouraging employees to get medical devices implanted in their bodies, as long as it’s exclusively for medical reasons, has a carve-out and would still be allowed. Another very interesting thing to keep in mind about this bill: The text says the term “subcutaneously” excludes “information temporarily attached to the skin by an adhesive strip or bracelet.” Washington-based Amazon. The use of such a device in Washington would not, it appears, be considered microchipping an employee according to this proposed law.The BBC Won’t Have a New ‘Doctor Who’ Star to Announce Until It Figures Out the Show’s FutureOpenAI Reportedly Shuts Down for a Week as Zuck Poaches Its Top Talent An employee's public lament over poached colleagues and a company-wide shutdown reveal a difficult truth: the human cost of building AI is reaching a breaking point.They say AI is just a tool to help workers. But read between the lines, and the message is clear: your job is already on the line.Sam Altman Is Marketing OpenAI as America’s Wartime AI Company Whether He Intends to or Not
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