I ll take an envelope or occasionally use a stamp for my personal letters.
Taking office supplies home for personal use. Partially because a lot of company promo swag is kind of meant to be distributed in a sense. Sticky fingers in the supply closet. Taking stuff that doesn t belong to you is pretty obviously wrong. What are your personal responsibilities.
And if you are working from home you should have a conversation about what supplies your workplace should supply. Found that 18 percent of the 2 350 surveyed workers admitted to having taken office supplies for personal use. Unethical behavior in the workplace can mean a series of things. Nearly one in five or 18 of workers report having taken office supplies for personal use in the past year according to a survey of 1 630 employed adults in the u s.
From ordering office supplies on the company s account for your own personal use to right out stealing office supplies from work. Stealing a stapler is kind of different thing than accidentally pocketing pens with the company logo. Personally i print off personal documents at work using their toner and paper. Unless you are working from home no it is not.
The worst thing i ve done or rather the most expensive thing i ve taken is a pad of post it notes. I am concerned that if left unchecked the misuse of company computers and software may become common place and largely be ignored by companies much the same has occurred with taking office supplies home and making copies of personal documents on a company printer or copying machine. Secondly stealing office supplies doesn t maximize overall utility. Well what are you using these office supplies for.
I sometimes take a pen or two home.