KEY POINTS
  • Forget swiping a credit card or badge to buy food at work. One U.S. tech firm is offering to install rice-size microchips in its employees' hands.
  • Once an employee has the chip voluntarily installed, he or she can purchase food in the break room, open doors and log into computers.
  • CEO Todd Westby told CNBC the chip cannot be tracked or hacked.

Forget swiping a credit card or badge to buy food at work. One Wisconsin-based tech firm is offering to install rice-size microchips in its employees' hands.

Three Square Market will be the first firm in the U.S. to use the device, which was approved by the FDA in 2004, CEO Todd Westby told CNBC on Monday.