I love my Allsteel Acuity chair which has a mesh back and a firm and not too plush seat. Armrests adjust up/down, side to side and the whole thing oozes quality. I used to use those cheap vinyl office depot chairs and they are just too plush to be good for extended sitting periods. They also tend to break down after a while. In our office, I bought a ton of used high end furniture from a dealer in San Jose who buys t…
Does the dealer you went to happen to have a website? I was thinking of picking up a new chair myself.
I believe it is known as a task chair (since it lacks armrests and is not too expensive), but for me not having armrests is the single most important aspect of a coding chair. If armrests are present, chances are that they will prevent me from pulling up to the desk completely - since they hit the desk before my body does - and as a result I will have to lean forward (and by extension begin to slouch) in order to reach the keyboard.
I currently work at an adjustable height table. I really like standing for about four hours each day while I work. I lower the table to sit whenever I get too tired of standing. For sitting, I use a strange stool-like chair with a spring mounted seat. It's called a Swopper chair and it's available on Amazon. At first this chair with no back tired me out. It prevents the kind of relaxed slumping that I always found myself doing before and keeps core muscles engaged. After a couple of months of using it I find it very comfortable, and I noticed the same pattern when I started to work standing up. This change in my work habits is associated with less frequent lower back problems (which have been developing for decades), but I'm not sure that's its the chair or the standing as much as not sitting the same way for 10 hours every day. Back when I was a long distance runner, I found that alternating shoes from different manufacturers on each day's run helped avoid overuse injuries.
I love my Allsteel Acuity chair which has a mesh back and a firm and not too plush seat. Armrests adjust up/down, side to side and the whole thing oozes quality. I used to use those cheap vinyl office depot chairs and they are just too plush to be good for extended sitting periods. They also tend to break down after a while. In our office, I bought a ton of used high end furniture from a dealer in San Jose who buys t…
Does the dealer you went to happen to have a website? I was thinking of picking up a new chair myself.
It's here (http://tekbenches.net/) but Rudy doesn't generally like selling one offs. I got myself and my friend a chair (Aeron for about $300) only because I got to know him via our office buy (30+ chairs and various furniture). He has a big warehouse and you meet up with him and you basically walk in and find your chair and haggle and strike a deal. No harm emailing to ask if you can head over.
Does the dealer you went to happen to have a website? I was thinking of picking up a new chair myself.
It's here ( http://tekbenches.net/ ) but Rudy doesn't generally like selling one offs. I got myself and my friend a chair (Aeron for about $300) only because I got to know him via our office buy (30+ chairs and various furniture). He has a big warehouse and you meet up with him and you basically walk in and find your chair and haggle and strike a deal. No harm emailing to ask if you can head over.
I had purchased a nice office chair from COSTCO previously, and as much as I love COSTCO, I absolutely hated the chair. I think it single handedly led to some RSI and constant headaches. After some research, picked up one of these and I'll probably never use another type of office chair.