“Big” Bob Brothers is concerned that his company, Big Brothers Security Systems, is losing out on customers because his salesmen and installation teams are slacking when they are out of the office. Brothers reads a newspaper article about another company that is putting microchip implants containing radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) into his employees in order to make sure they aren’t doing “off the clock” stuff while on the clock. Brothers sends a memo to employees explaining that they will all be chipped the next month, and anyone refusing to chip will be terminated. Can Brothers “big brother” his employees like that?
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