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We Love This LEGO Office Cubicle

By Paperstone on 6 November 2014 in Fun, Office Life, Office Supplies, Office Workers with 0 Comments
We Love This LEGO Office Cubicle

We love this wonderfully accurate LEGO set showing an office worker flanked by his two trusty monitors while he chats with his colleague over a coffee and a cookie – and it could one day hit the shops. Submitted to LEGO Ideas by a user called Tobinsbricks, the model of this familiar scene could be […]

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Is This The World’s Spookiest Office Desk?

By Paperstone on 31 October 2014 in Fun, Office Furniture, Office Life, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Is This The World’s Spookiest Office Desk?

What has happened to the Paperstone office this Halloween? The sales team are spooked, customer services are creeped out and the web team have the willies! A loud cackling can be heard from the stationery cupboard as pumpkins sprout from desks and ghosts and ghouls circle the cauldron that’s appeared in the kitchen. Our head […]

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November Is Also National Blog Posting Month

By Paperstone on 22 October 2014 in Fun, Office Life with 0 Comments
November Is Also National Blog Posting Month

November is National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) and this event celebrates all the weird and wonderful blogs out there! To take part, you have to post something on the NaBloPoMo website every day for the whole of November, and you will also have fun looking at all the other blogs posted there! If you don’t […]

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INFOGRAPHIC: The Most Annoying Office Habits in the UK

By Paperstone on 10 October 2014 in Fun, Infographics, Office Life with 0 Comments
INFOGRAPHIC: The Most Annoying Office Habits in the UK

Are you ticked off by loud typing, nauseated by nail clipping or does gossiping really get your goat? We surveyed 1,000 office workers across the UK to discover the horrible habits that send us desk jockeys into a jitter and created an infographic below. Sadly we couldn’t include them all (there were too many!). Have […]

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Watch Your Back for Backcare Awareness Week 2014

By Paperstone on 7 October 2014 in Health & Safety, Office Furniture, Office Life, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Watch Your Back for Backcare Awareness Week 2014

Working in an office can sometimes be a pain in the neck, if you’re one of millions who suffer from back pain at work. October 6- 12 is Backcare Awareness Week and this year the spotlight is on office workers and the problems they encounter with back and shoulder pain. The campaign is organised by BackCare, […]

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October Is Make A Difference Month

By Paperstone on 1 October 2014 in Charity, Fun, Office Life, Office Workers with 0 Comments
October Is Make A Difference Month

October is Make a Difference Month when we are all encouraged to contribute to our communities and make the world a better place. The event is organised by the Community Service Volunteers (CSV), a UK-based volunteering and training charity which has been around for more than 50 years.  In the past 12 months, CSV has […]

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Bring Your Manners to Work Day

By Paperstone on 2 September 2014 in Fun, Office Life, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Bring Your Manners to Work Day

We all take stuff to work- our mobile phones, a little cash, and maybe a packed lunch. Most of us hopefully take our manners to work too, and remember to treat our colleagues with politeness and respect. But just in case we should forget, next Friday (September 5th) is Bring Your Manners to Work Day. […]

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Our 10th Birthday Party – Cake, Candles and … ClueQuest!

By Paperstone on 29 August 2014 in Fun, Office Life, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Our 10th Birthday Party – Cake, Candles and … ClueQuest!

Birthdays are typically celebratory affairs, but following a nutritious meal of pizza, beer and cake last night the gloves came off for the “live escape” game ClueQuest (Operation BlackSheep). Everyone at Paperstone was divided into two teams, locked in two separate rooms in East London and instructed to complete an interstellar sabotage mission. The teams had to […]

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Thinking Outside The Crate – How a Beer Brewer Made His CV Stand Out

By Paperstone on 28 July 2014 in Fun, Office Life, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Thinking Outside The Crate – How a Beer Brewer Made His CV Stand Out

Do you want your CV to stand out from the crowd? The answer may be to think creatively, like graphic designer Brennan Gleason. Enterprising Brennan likes to brew his own ale – and created a four-pack of his home brew with his CV printed on the cardboard carrying crate. He gave the beer the title […]

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Get Ready For A Green Grassy Love Parks Week 2014

By Paperstone on 16 July 2014 in Fun, Health & Safety, Office Life with 0 Comments
Get Ready For A Green Grassy Love Parks Week 2014

Summer’s here – and it’s time to enjoy fun in your local park. We can’t always get out of town and into the countryside, so the green spaces in our cities are a lifeline. Walking in the park is a huge stress buster – and these visits can reduce illnesses too. A daily stroll in […]

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