办公室玩具（office toy）是随着市场的需求而慢慢兴起的。然而过去的玩具都注重在幼儿孩童的身心发展或娱乐上，而忽略了办公室族群对玩具的需求与认知。如今，在欧美先进国家中，办公室玩具已纳入为员工管理重要的一个环节。许多公司甚至鼓励员工可以自由地在办公室使用办公室玩具，由此可见，办公室玩具逐渐被重视。

办公室玩具专家王乡诚提到，办公室玩具为好玩、可发挥创造力与发泄情緖的玩物。其中办公室玩具除了能提供孩童时玩具的正向好感联想外，本身的外观造型或其赋予的意义也可以装饰环境，并且展显其个人的特质与风格，同时借由把玩的方式达到工作上压力的纾解。

Office toys are raised and developed gradually according to needs from office workers in the market. Unfortunately, most toy researches were focusing on the pleasure, mental or physical developments contribution in underage people, and lack of understandings on adult for playing toys in the working field. Nowadays, office toys have been treated as an important role in employer management in many companies. Office toys are playthings that could provide pleasure, relief stress and inspire creativity. Office toys not only recalls the merry moments of playing toys in the early age, but also provides the function in decorating employer's personal working area and could lead office workers to relief stress by playing them. One of the classic office toy is Newton's cradle