Tech Companies Stock Offices with Nicotine Products to Boost Employee Productivity
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Summary
Tech companies like Palantir and Hello Patient are stocking office vending machines with nicotine products (pouches from startups Lucy and Sesh) to increase employee productivity. The trend represents a comeback of tobacco products in workplaces as a legal alternative to drugs used historically by Wall Street bankers. While companies report productivity benefits, health experts warn about well-documented adverse health effects of tobacco use.
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· 4 pulledTech companies like Palantir and Hello Patient are stocking office vending machines with nicotine products to increase productivity among employees—and it seems to be working.
Nicotine startups Lucy and Sesh have installed branded vending machines in Palantir's Washington, D.C., office, full of nicotine pouches that are leaving employees zipped up and ready to work.
Long a safer (and legal) alternative to the drugs that Wall Street bankers of old would use to follow market updates, tobacco products have started to make a comeback in the workplace.
Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.
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