(amazing as it may seem) in a large factory. Every(I mean every) door was opened with a code and magnetic card. Once, visiting the technical department, I caught a glance at a screen monitoring this security system. It recorded every door "event" with the employees 6 digit number. I don't know how long these records were kept, but it was a bit unnerving. This was twelve years ago. I'm sure their system is more sophsticated now. Ofcourse they had an excuse for having such a system as valuables for hundreds of millions was kept in the building at all times, and despite this security three professional heists were carried out in the time I worked there, all with loot for several millions. One "organization" even spent two years infiltrating the place, placing several of their people in key positions that let them run off with a fairly substantial loot... I digress. I suppose most corporations will eventually have fairly substantial security systems which as a "side-effect" will track the movements of their employees.

lifting and then faking fingerprints has been demonstrated to work >80% of the time. that was 3-4 years ago. punish the innocent and help the serious criminal.
clever? NOT!.
don't even start to think about the potential for abuse of DNA

.. I work for a company called TG...
I am a part of that group..
in my company its used to track high traffic areas and secured rooms....
possibly will soon have all workers to login /logout.. 

this calculating their salaries..

this office is in China..
and security cameras watching thier movements they go everywhere...

I worked for a manufacturing company years ago that used these things as a punch clock. It read up to 70 points on the back of your hand (I think finger print reading for this purpose is not allowed in Canada). I personally liked the system over my previous employers keypad punch clock

It's obviously very important to have secret service high-security-facility security at places like Dunkin' Donuts and McDonald's, otherwise nobody would notice that there was no personal present, it's not like these places have managers and customers after all.
And the worst thing is that if you don't like it you are forced to not take the wonderful position of serving burgers/hotdogs to people so I guess there no option for employees but to cave in and let the weasels walk all over them.
"Land of the FREEEE and the home of the braaaave" (please fight america, because it's not like the euros will so you are the last stand, TIA)

I worked at a small hotel chain, and we had fingerprint rec. on our timeclock system. Problem was, it didn't always recognize you. Or sometimes it thought you were someone else.

One defunct software company local to me (aptly named: PMS) did this, plus counting keystrokes, log-timing loo ins, and randomly remote monitoring emps' screens. But it was all for moot, since apps coding has all but become obsolete. Once past Y2K, Programming jobs must be the ones that the Americans don't want to do. Clueless managers must gain all the dosh. The death of higher wages is sin.

This is nothing new, hand scanners have been used for a while now. Its no different then punching in and out with an old fashioned machine and punch card for your time. Welcome to life working in a factory. Manual labour FTW!