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A Busy Week For Envelopes

By Paperstone on 8 April 2009 in Envelopes with 0 Comments

In a news week packed with envelopes… On March 31, the U.S. Postal Service was flooded with thousands of empty red envelopes addressed to the White House in an anti-abortion campaign. The envelopes were to represent the lives lost to abortion. Participants were encouraged either to send their own or to purchase imprinted red envelopes […]

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Photocopier, Printer Dealers Hit By Unfavourable Exchange Rates

By Paperstone on 6 April 2009 in Ink Cartridges And Toners, Office Machines & Supplies with 0 Comments

British companies selling and leasing Japanese manufactured goods have in recent months passed on increased cost prices to customers after negative GBP to Euro and Euro to Yen exchange rate trends worsened. This has affected office machine suppliers in particular since a majority of brands are Japanese including Ricoh, Sharp, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita, Panasonic, […]

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Whistleblower of the Office Supplies World

By Paperstone on 6 April 2009 in Office Supplies, Office Workers with 0 Comments

Deep Throat spilled the beans on Nixon’s involvement in Watergate. Sherron Watkins exposed the corruption and fraud endemic in the practices of her employer, Enron. But have you heard of David Sherwin? Sherwin of Fort Myers, Florida is the office supplies world’s own whistleblower. He was fired from his job as a senior accounts manager […]

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Smokers Reminded To Stub Out Their Fags Properly

By Paperstone on 30 March 2009 in Office Environment, Office Supplies, Office Workers with 0 Comments

Office fire highlights that smoking still a fire risk Office workers are required by law to smoke outdoors but this doesn’t mean that smoking no longer poses a fire risk. A recent fire in Douglas on the Isle of Man highlighted the potential risk of fire caused by cigarettes not properly stubbed out. The fire […]

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Offices Holding Back Workers From Being Green

By Paperstone on 27 March 2009 in Office Supplies, Office Workers with 0 Comments

While office workers acknowledge the importance of environmentally friendly workplaces and are keen to do their bit, they feel they lack the power and facilities to do so, according to a YouGov poll. Seventy-nine percent of UK office workers believe that being environmentally responsible at work as a big impact on the environment. Despite this, […]

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Office Supply News Catch-up, Part Two

By Paperstone on 19 March 2009 in Health & Safety, Office Supplies, Office Workers with 0 Comments
Office Supply News Catch-up, Part Two

Health and Safety Executive launches work-related stress website The HSE last month launched a revamped website aimed at tackling the consequences of work-related stress. The improved portal provides employers and staff with a range of information on stress in the workplace, an exigency that can have serious implications for a businesses’ performance as well as […]

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Office Supply News Catch-up, Part One

By Paperstone on 19 March 2009 in Computer Supplies with 0 Comments
Office Supply News Catch-up, Part One

Gendered office supplies Hewlett Packard have just launched two new fashion mice designed with women’s technology preferences and tastes in mind. The HP Wireless Comfort Mouse – Women’s Special Edition in metallic pearl paint finish is engineered to account for the reduced finger mass and strength of women’s fingers. The symmetrical design is smaller than […]

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FEATURE – Home working and setting up a home office

By Paperstone on 27 February 2009 in Office Furniture, Office Supplies, Office Workers with 0 Comments

The recent wintry spell drew media attention not just as a meteorological anomaly. Because many employees could not make it into the office for a few days, or companies simply shut up shop, lost hours of work were lamented in some business quarters. According to The Guardian, the Arctic intrusion may have cost British businesses […]

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Long live the Post-it Note

By Paperstone on 27 February 2009 in Office Supplies with 0 Comments

Researchers at MIT are confirming what we knew all along: that the Post-it Note continues to flourish despite ever-improving software to schedule, organise and otherwise make notes. As researcher David Karger says, “A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to figure out cool new things for computers to do. What’s more interesting […]

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Safe bet?

By Paperstone on 27 February 2009 in Health & Safety with 0 Comments

One market that hasn’t suffered in the ongoing crisis of capitalism is that for safes. The sale of household safes surged following Northern Rock’s troubles and has continued to rise. Evidently the £50,000 guarantee on bank savings is not reassuring enough for some of us. Consumer organisations such as Which? recommend that for large amounts […]

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