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For years, the office breakroom was treated as an afterthought. A kettle that took an age to boil, a jar of instant coffee nobody liked, a fridge full of forgotten lunches, and a bench that had seen better days. It was a place people passed through rather than a place they wanted to be, and most businesses never gave it a second thought. That thinking has changed, and for good reason. As the way we work has shifted, the breakroom has quietly beco …

When most people buy a printer cartridge, they look at one number and one number only: the price on the shelf. It is an understandable instinct. A printer cartridge that costs 30 dollars feels like a better deal than one that costs 45 dollars, so the cheaper one goes in the basket and everyone gets on with their day. The trouble is that the sticker price tells you almost nothing about what a cartridge will actually cost you to use. Two cartridges …

Most of us have done it. The printer flashes its low-ink warning, you pull out the spent cartridge, and without a second thought it goes straight into the kitchen bin along with the coffee grounds and yesterday's junk mail. It feels harmless. It is one small piece of plastic, after all, and there is a fresh printer cartridge waiting to take its place. The problem is that this small, everyday habit adds up to an enormous environmental cost, and al …

Every office has one. That person who insists on printing a 40-page report in a typeface that looks like a medieval scroll, or the project manager who sends out standard meeting agendas formatted to look like a children’s birthday party invitation. While you might think your choice of typeface is a minor aesthetic decision, the truth is that your favourite font says a great deal about your inner psyche. It is a psychological fingerprint lef …