The items within this category include office and stationery equipment for both the home and the growing corporate workplaces of America. Various stationery companies such as W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company, and Smith Corona Typewriters commissioned reports to determine people’s attitudes to some of the most basic office and stationery products, and these often focused on how to introduce new products to the market. See, for instance Proposal for a motivational research study on how to introduce a new typewriter and Potential office market for a Sheaffer automatic pencil.

Other campaigns targeted the workplace: introducing more efficient office equipment, as well as services to store, send, and dispose of various documents. Sears, Roebuck and Company, for example, commissioned a series of reports on fireproof storage systems, and the Xerox Corporation ordered a report entitled: Marketing a new color copier: a proposal for a motivational research study in 1973. One of the most unique reports is Proposal for a motivational research study of the business communications environment in the 1980s, which attempted to predict how the office of the future would function.