The Hammock Blog

If you walk around our offices here at Hammock Inc., you'll find that most of us Hammockites have cherished desk items that have been with us almost as long as we've been working here. While some of us like to keep a fun reminder of our favorite childhood toy in our line of sight, others need some sort of stress reliever within arm's reach at all times. And whether we choose to display our favorite cartoon, an artifact from our backyard or a gift from a parent, one thing is certain: None of our desks are bare. Here's a fun slideshow of Hammock's favorite desk toys.

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So we polled our colleagues about what's on their summer reading list, as well as their favorite time or place for reading and preferred medium -- traditional paper, audiobooks or e-readers like Kindle. As you might expect, the responses were varied and sometimes surprising -- and worth reading: