office supplies
The disappearing desktop
November 14, 2012: 5:00 AM ETSay good-bye to Cubeland. The office space of tomorrow will be shedding a lot of excess baggage.
By Jennifer Abbasi / Graphic Nicolas Rapp
FORTUNE -- LinkedIn recently asked more than 7,000 members of its professional network in 18 countries about which office supplies they see going the way of the dodo in the next five years. Topping the list was the tape recorder. Roll over the graphic to see seven other habits and tools destined for extinction.
This story is from the November 12, 2012 issue of Fortune.
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Making office supplies stylish
Poppin.com wants to do for staplers what Starbucks did for coffee: turn them into something people want, not just need.
By Jessica Shambora, writer-reporter
Do tape dispensers and hole punches need a makeover? According to Ken Seiff, founder of Bluefly.com, and venture capitalist Chris Burch who co-founded Tory Burch with his then-wife and is also behind Voss Water and the Jawbone, the answer is a resounding yes. Hence, Poppin.com, a sort of MORE
Feb 2, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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CEO Roger Crandall thinks that means-testing and older retirement ages are inevitable, but that its unlikely entitlements for the less affluent will be touched. Play -
CEO Roger Crandall thinks rates will remain low, but says MassMutual has diversified its portfolio to protect against any changes. Play -
CEO Roger Crandall says emerging economies like China are prime growth targets. Play -
Roger Crandall says that baby boomers will have to keep working into retirement and that young people have been scared off by the stock market. Play
