[National Office Week]

Our latest press release with some quirky facts so now you can impress people at your next dinner party or tomorrow at work!

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Some interesting Office facts from National Office Week, April 2008

1. The word “office” as in National Office Week, derives from “in the offing”, which was used to describe a ship visible at sea off the land. Such a ship is often approaching port, hence the phrase is used to mean about to dock, about to happen or likely to take place. Hence the office is a place where things are expected to happen.

2. National Office Week survey results show that hand-written letters in a stamped envelope, remain the most desirable item to receive. BASILDON BOND first became the UK’s best selling notepaper in 1932.

3. Research conducted by National Office Week has proven that incredibly, each BIC ballpoint pen can draw a line up to 3 kilometers long.

4. While STABILO were inventing the world’s first highlighter in 1971, National Office Week has determined that the crew of Apollo 15 were landing on the moon, and John Lennon was tucked up in his studio recording “Imagine”.

5. If you lay all the sheets of MOTIF paper used in Europe last year end to end, they will reach around the earth almost 100 times, according to nationalofficeweek.com

6. According to National Office Week, the preferred autograph marker for celebrities and athletes, including David Beckham, Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Lindsay Lohan and Tom Cruise is the SHARPIE marker, the most photographed marker in the world!

7. National Office Week confirms that an office worker spends roughly 150 hours per year looking for misplaced information, which is perhaps why LEITZ sell as many Lever Arch Files every year as the number of albums Elvis Presley sold in America in his entire career.

8. DATA COPY paper is so desirable that it has been faked, announces National Office Week. Between 1994 and 1996 counterfeit DATA COPY paper was found in Russia, Turkey, The Philippines and Australia.

9. National Office Week confirms that the RAPID 5050 Electronic Stapler holds half a million staples in one cassette!

10. Your M&S have revealed on nationalofficeweek.com that 1.5 billion sandwiches are consumed on the go every year.


and there are more!

National Office Week recently named Google the best company to work for in terms of pay, benefits, perks and bonuses. The best company for that all important end of year bonus has to be financial services' Goldman Sachs whose 2007 bonus pool rose 23% to a record $12.1billion. The financial sector is unlikely to be producing such record-breaking figures this year.

In this year’s ranking, National Office Week confirms London has the most expensive office occupancy costs in the world, with one square meter of prime space in London’s West End costing €2,277 a year. In second place is Hong Kong, at €1,745.

National Office Week has confirmed the tallest office buildings in the world is the Taipei 101 in China, with the 2 Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpar occupying second and third place. The Sears Building in Chicago is fourth.

National Office Week is making office life gorgeous
National Office Week is a campaign designed to make office life gorgeous. Office managers, office buyers and office administrators will have access to all the things that they or their office needs to help it run at the optimum level of efficiency for the best possible price, using tools and products that will inform, motivate, inspire and entertain.

National Office Week comes to life with makeovers, competitions, information and the popular 100-a-day gorgeous giveaway from 9am between May 12–16 culminating in a LIVE event at The Times Crème show Olympia.

www.nationalofficeweek.com

Other highlights of the week include forums, discussion groups, points based award schemes redeemable against office supplies, competitions including a ‘how to look good naked’ photo shoot, a win a stylist offer, £500 worth of Planet vouchers, win a Ferrari for a day, along with myriad office hampers at £100 each, hotel stays, M&S bouquets of flowers and office makeovers.

National Office Week is sponsored by Basildon Bond, Bic, Datacopy, Leitz, Marks & Spencer Lunch to Go, Motif, Rapid, Sharpie and Stabilo.

For Further Information Please Contact:

Debi Arnold
Campaign Director
0777 564 6274

[Fuzzy]

Cool information there! Fuzzy loves M&S sarnies, thankfully I don't live next to one so it's a rare occasion

[National Office Week]

Hi Fuzzy,

Glad you enjoyed the snippets of information.

Kim