Office toy

Newton's cradle

An office toy or desk toy is a type of toy intended to sit on desks in an office environment.

Office toys are raised and developed gradually according to needs from office workers in the market. Unfortunately, most toy researches were focusing on the pleasure, mental or physical developments contribution in underage people, and lack of understandings on adult for playing toys in the working field. Nowadays, office toys have been treated as an important role in employer management in many companies.

Office toys are playthings that could provide pleasure, relief stress and inspire creativity^[1]. Office toys not only recalls the merry moments of playing toys in the early age, but also provides the function in decorating employer's personal working area and could lead office workers to relief stress by playing them. One of the classic office toy is Newton's cradle.

The Functions of Office Toys

According to office toy specialist Hsiang-Cheng(Sam) Wang's research, different types of office toys provide different needs to their users. Although providing pleasure and being decorative could be the two major functions in office toys, there are still some differences between each types of office toys. For example, Puzzle type of office toys provides the function inspiring creativity under the statement of playing them. Physical type of office toys provide the function of a short time concentration transit.

References

1. ^ Hsiang Cheng(Sam) Wang. 2007. The Investigation of Office Toy. National Central Library