Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity

Puff, puff, pass the spreadsheets.

Tech companies like Palantir and Hello Patient are stocking office vending machines with tobacco products to increase productivity among employees—and it seems to be working.

Tobacco startups Lucy Nicotine and Sesh have installed branded vending machines in Palantir’s Washington D.C. office, full with nicotine pouches that are leaving employees zipped up and ready to work.

Long a safer (re: more legal) alternative to the drugs that...