Source: BiohaxSwedish company Biohax announced that it will be working with several well-known firms in the U.K. to microchip their employees.

Microchipping employees will increase security at a time when it seems as if every sector is vulnerable to security breaches.

One unnamed U.K. company in negotiations with Biohax has an estimated “hundreds of thousands of employees” that might soon be microchipped.

The microchips have already been implanted in 4,000 people, most of whom are in Sweden, will grant employees entry into workplaces and replaces the ID passes currently in use.

Last year, Biohax microchipped 50 vending machine company employees in the United States. The tiny radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips allow those employees to open doors and to log on to computers.

Todd Westby, CEO of Biohax explained at the time, “We foresee the use of RFID technology to drive everything from making purchases in our office break room market, opening doors, use of copy machines, logging into our office computers, unlocking phones, sharing business cards, storing medical/health information, and used as payment at other RFID terminals. Eventually, this technology will become standardized allowing you to use this as your passport, public transit, all purchasing opportunities, etc.”

The process involves implanting a microchip, roughly the size of a grain of rice, into the fleshy part of a person’s hand between the thumb and the index finger.

Despite personal privacy concerns inherent in microchipping, many in the hacking community have implanted the RFID chips for the purpose of unlocking cars and authenticating their phones.

Although Biohax is not currently naming the companies planning to have their employees implanted with the chips, the demand is such that Biohax is planning to open offices in London.