10 Accessories to Cheer Up Your Office Break Room [PICS]

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

If your staff room's highlights are a handful of tattered magazines, a tired vending machine and a half-dead plant, then shame on you. With a little effort and a small amount of cash, you can offer your employees so much more.

The staff room is just as important as any other area in your workplace -- work shouldn't exclude fun, after all. Just look at how successful companies like Google manage to bring serious fun into their workplace.

Take a look through our photo gallery of some great gadgets and accessories to cheer up your staff room and let us know in the comments how you think is best to bring fun to the workplace.