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Re:Dash: A company card for every employee by revelation on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @04:23PM (#9854343)
In practice it looks like this: Let’s say a photography studio employee is out shopping for props for an upcoming photo shoot, and their card limits them to spending $100. When they get to the register they discover that the actual cost is closer to $110. That employee can shoot a request over to their manager asking for an additional $15, and Dash will send a push notification to that manager. The manager can approve the additional funds right from their phone, or from within Slack (a popular office communication platform).

Holy micromanager.

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Re:Dash: A company card for every employee by lm741 on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @04:55PM (#9854514)
We're trying to build a system where companies feel comfortable giving cards out to all of their employees and then adjust the limits upwards as they build trust internally. The ad-hoc requests features from this example might be best for new/temporary employees or large purchases. Over time I'd hope that most employees will actually have a monthly budget and thus a greater degree of autonomy.
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Re:Dash: A company card for every employee by justinsb on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @04:32PM (#9854395)
This could be used to micro-manage, but I think there's nothing stopping you multiplying those numbers by 10x or 100x if that makes more sense.

I think this could be really interesting for peer-provided services like TaskRabbit/Instacart.

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Re:Dash: A company card for every employee by Retra on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @07:19PM (#9855269)
You can obviously scale that to enable the amount of micromanaging you desire...
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