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Fine, you get a stapler. In five years at my current company, I don't know that I've even (literally) touched the one I was given. You could have mine, assuming I could even find it. It's probably right next to that tape dispenser and the stack of sticky notes that are still in the cellophane.

What share of your salary does a stapler cost?

When working on the office, it makes perfect sense to buy plenty of them so everybody would have one nearby (at the same cabinet as the perforator, folders, printer paper, extra sticky notes, pens, and whatever else).

When working at home, I'd guess it's used exactly never, so yes, it doesn't make sense to buy them.

Does everybody at Google work at home?

Anyway, the stapler is the most interesting part of the headline. How much did it cost to decide to stop buying them? Does it save enough to pay the decision-making?

Or a paper clip or a binder clip. But, yeah, although I do print more than one a month is not something I do on anything like a daily basis.

I don't remember the last time I've printed anything at work, apart from my notice.