I read a piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning about new elevator technology that allows company management to “redirect” any employee they choose to a different floor than the one that employee thinks he/she will be going to.
In other words, if the boss wants to chew you out for whatever reason and you think you’re going to sneak into your cubicle in the morning before anyone sees you, he can program the elevator to take you directly to his floor without stopping at yours. It can even alert the executive suite that you have entered the elevator and are on the way.
How spooky is that?
This same technology (offered by two of the larger US-based elevator companies) groups employees onto different elevators in the morning (or afternoon) rush hour traffic in the service of efficiency in moving personnel to their respective floors more quickly.
Maybe it’s the dark side of my imagination that makes me wonder how long it will be until some nefarious CEO (of a BIG OIL or tobacco company, of course!) uses the new technology to make an adversary disappear down an open elevator shaft. Oops, I have no idea why he walked through those open doors! What a tragedy. Death by Otis.
All in all, it’s just one more reason to take the stairs.
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