chairs are important, but expensive. aerons are obvious but too much for a bootstrappin' startup. recommendations?
Best cheap office chair for startups?
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#2Optima are okay...
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#3What's your budget? How many people are you buying chairs for?
If you're buying chairs for 10 people or less, give everyone a chair budget and then take a field trip to your local office furniture supply. Sometimes giving your employees those kinds of choices tells them that you are interested in their well being more than a 900 dollar chair does.
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#4plenty of people going out of business right now. you may be able to pick up some used aerons.
Re: Best cheap office chair for startups?
#5What's your budget? How many people are you buying chairs for? If you're buying chairs for 10 people or less, give everyone a chair budget and then take a field trip to your local office furniture supply. Sometimes giving your employees those kinds of choices tells them that you are interested in their well being more than a 900 dollar chair does.
Umm, what? I'll take an Aeron over "here's $200, go to Staples" any day.
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#6Used Aerons on craigslist are the way to go. I'm of the opinion that when you're spending crazy hours in a chair, it's not something you want to skimp on. The extra productivity caused by the difference in comfort level will more than pay for the chair.
Get cheap-ass desks from Ikea or something.
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#7I have experimented with those kneeling things that have no back, and to my surprise they seem to work ok. I find it best to swap back and forth between on those and a normal chair.
In general, I find hard straight chairs better than the more common padded office style. I think the periodic shifting and squirming you do keeps your back from setting up in a bad way. Wooden kitchen chairs are cheap to come by if you don't care about matching them, but one disadvantage is that they don't slide around as well.
I am currently using a wooden rocking chair for all my office chair needs. It's easier to slide around (I glued felt strips to the rockers). If I were setting up a new office now, I would get only rocking chairs.
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#8plenty of people going out of business right now. you may be able to pick up some used aerons.
There's always a strong aftermarket for Aeron chairs. Which means they're always available used, and always more expensive that you'd like. But, ~$700 is better than new prices, and an Aeron is a solid choice. There are only a few chairs in the same league and none that are significantly cheaper or as universally available.
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#9The Russell Executive Mesh Chair @ Office Depot for $230 received a good review on cooltools as a inexpensive alternative to the Aeron:
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000891.php
I would take a trip to Office Depot and Staples to see if you can find anything comfortable that meets your needs.