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Shopify is giving its employees $1k to furnish their work-from-home setups

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Post by skunkworker »

mgerdts wrote: post #3

PSA: Used office chairs are a much better deal than new, at least if you are paying close to list price. About 10 years ago I bought a steelcase leap for less than $300. I've used it at least 250 days a year since then with no problems. List price on that chair is $1k.

This. I bought a used Herman Miller Miira for $250 and when I priced it out it was 1200 new. Great chair and significantly better than the new $200 office chairs.

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Post by jackschultz »

I'm a remote worker and I've found it hard to say something positive about the virus, but having companies be more ok with remote workers and (hopefully) finding work still gets done can mean more remote possibilities overall. For me, that's a good thing.

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Post by wyclif »

mgerdts wrote: post #3

PSA: Used office chairs are a much better deal than new, at least if you are paying close to list price. About 10 years ago I bought a steelcase leap for less than $300. I've used it at least 250 days a year since then with no problems. List price on that chair is $1k.

Any ideas on what the best clearinghouses online for used Steelcase or Herman Miller chairs would be?

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Post by janesvilleseo »

I have worked from home for nearly a decade. I guess I don’t know what I’m missing but I don’t need 1k chair. I sit at my dinning room table on a 50 dollar chair from Ashley Furniture. No problems at all. True I don’t have a desktop and use a laptop so I can take it with me to onsite meetings or move to another location like my patio, couch, or garage.

I’m not sure what I’d spend 1k on besides the machine I use to get work done on.

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Post by omegabravo »

mgerdts wrote: post #3

PSA: Used office chairs are a much better deal than new, at least if you are paying close to list price. About 10 years ago I bought a steelcase leap for less than $300. I've used it at least 250 days a year since then with no problems. List price on that chair is $1k.

I bought a brand new one and it's fantastic. The used market for premium chairs in my remote part of the country is non-existent. I certainly would have bought a second hand one since they are so well built.

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Post by wyclif »

xeromal wrote: post #6
geocrasher wrote: post #5

You can buy a Herman Miller refurb on Amazon for $500. It's a great deal. You also need a second monitor, mechanical keyboard, webcam, headset. $1k is plenty for all of that

People with mechanical keyboards in conference calls can jump in a lake. haha

I do this and honestly, it's not that bad if you don't have the mic near the keyboard. The headset mic I have seems to drop audio dramatically just a few inches away from my mouth, which is a feature, not a bug, if you're using a mechanical keyboard.

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

mgerdts wrote: post #3

PSA: Used office chairs are a much better deal than new, at least if you are paying close to list price. About 10 years ago I bought a steelcase leap for less than $300. I've used it at least 250 days a year since then with no problems. List price on that chair is $1k.

Used chairs seem to be plentiful. It seems that whenever a business moves office they just throw away or sell for very cheap all of their chairs and tables.

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Post by cnasc »

wyclif wrote: post #14
mgerdts wrote: post #3

PSA: Used office chairs are a much better deal than new, at least if you are paying close to list price. About 10 years ago I bought a steelcase leap for less than $300. I've used it at least 250 days a year since then with no problems. List price on that chair is $1k.

Any ideas on what the best clearinghouses online for used Steelcase or Herman Miller chairs would be?

These chairs are big and heavy, shipping will probably be annoying. I got mine from an office liquidator ~30 minutes from my home, which I found just by searching for office liquidators near me that had inventory listings online. As a bonus, you can probably see it in person before you actually buy it.
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