A growing number of employers today are looking to further incorporate the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition software etc, into the workplace.

Government-sponsored research in China for example, has been looking to have workers wear headgear, equipped with brain-monitoring EEG sensors, to try and assess the moods of employees when they are at work. And now employers in Japan are looking to move in the same direction as well.

One IT company in Japan, E-ComeTrue, is working on facial recognition software that will help employers to scan the faces of their employees as they enter and leave the workplace.

The hope is that by analyzing their smile, that the software will be able to assess how they feel at the beginning and at the end of the day.

It might eventually start making its way into a variety of bars, restaurants, and other service areas, as more employers find some sort of benefit from scanning the faces of their employees.

The technology is ultimately going to measure the smile and assign some smiley face points based on how happy or sad the employee looks.

If they continually scan their face with a frown, they might be approached by management about why they aren't smiling enough. According to the company, they feel that because a smile is demanded from the employee before they clock-in, that it would be ideal to implement in venues such as restaurants and bars.

They aren't the first company either, to try and monitor employees this way. There has been a growing number of employers over the years who have been looking to further incorporate this technology into their business model.

At the moment, it's reported that there are employees having their emotions and faces etc monitored in dozens of different factories and businesses.

Aside from using AI and facial recognition software etc, to try and monitor the employees' emotions or mood, there are also companies now that have started implanting microchips into their employees. Stories about employees receiving their microchips started to surface several years ago, with workers in countries like Sweden volunteering to be part of the project. And now that technology has also made its way to the US, with American companies also now offering microchips to employees.

In the coming years, the workplace around the world might look very different from what we are used to seeing; the more that this sort of technology gets incorporated into the environment and accepted for use as commonplace.

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Sources:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6632246/japan-facial-recognition-software-sack-workers-smiling/
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-emotional-surveillance-technology-2018-4
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-workers-microchip-implant-cash-card-id-pass-replace-employee-hand-epicenter-rice-grain-size-a7670551.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/microchip-implant-employees-1.4222163
http://www.businessinsider.com/wisconsin-microchips-implant-bodies-three-square-market-2017-8
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/installing-microchips-in-employees-is-the-right-thing-to-do-ceo-says.html

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