For most employees, gone are the days when “signing in” to work involved the use of pen and paper. Now employees are issued smart cards and other electronic IDs used in conjunction with scanners and sensors throughout their office buidlings. Biometric technology is apparently the latest timekeeping application to be implemented in the workplace, and according to this Wall Street Journal article, “At New York law firm Akin & Smith LLC, paralegals, receptionists and clerks clock in by placing a finger on a sensor kept at a secretary’s desk.”