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There's a study on this (well, teaspoons). It doesn't help with the how they are disappearing, but goes into surprising detail as to the mechanics.
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1322240/
Scrabble
That was my assumption at first but I went through the desks one evening (it's a hot desking situation so not going through anyone's private stuff) and only found 3 so it seems like people are taking them home. They're really crap quality so maybe it's just people absentmindedly throwing them in their Tupperware rather than intentionally grabbing them but that doesn't make it less annoying when you want to eat your pasta and have to settle for a spoon.