ChangeTip Integrates Slack, a New Use Case for Micropayments?

At the start of the New Year, we reported that ChangeTip was adding Facebook and Slack integration. The Facebook integration was already there for some users, but Slack had not yet been rolled out to the public.
Now, it is. Slack is a collaborative work platform with social elements that takes itself less seriously than other work productivity apps. It functions a bit like a message board with healthy doses of Google Drive, Facebook and Github and is the fasting growing work productivity app of all time.
The idea of adding Slack integration is an interesting one. Generally, micropayments are thought of as something that will facilitate commerce between content creators and content consumers. Slack integration is an experiment on whether if tipping can be useful in another way, between collaborators and colleagues.
At first glance, one would think the answer is no. People go to work to make money, not give it away. But that discounts the amount of money flowing around a typical physical workplace at any given time. Co-workers lend money to each other, take up collections for sick colleagues, have secret Santa events, throw birthday parties, retirement parties, work anniversary parties, etc. There are fantasy football leagues and March Madness tournaments, friendly bets and shared lunches.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2015-01-15.