What is the Best Home Office Chair ?
How much thought goes into your office chair?
Since the pandemic, a lot more of us are working from home and spending a lot of time in our DIY offices staring at the computer. When we look at setting up our office spaces, how much time and thought do you give each aspect of the room? The desk, screens, chair?
If you were still in the office, the chair may be supplied for you, a work place assessment might even be done, and a fancy ergonomic chair might be recommended. So when we’re at home, why don’t we treat it with the same care?
Time? Cost? It’s more comfortable sat on the sofa in front of the TV with the laptop out? (I won’t tell anyone!)
Let’s talk about chairs! If you’re going out to buy sofas, you spend hours finding the right style, the right fabric and cushioning (I for one, try to avoid this trip at all costs!), but we don’t seem to care as much when buying an office chair that you’re likely to be spending more of your day sat in.
So that brings us to the question, ‘What makes a good office chair?’ Is it cushioning? Support? Arms?
Well in reality… it’s all those things! It has to fill all the criteria to make it a chair you’d want to sit in all day and not get up with terrible back ache. Imagine buying a car that looks amazing on the outside, has all the gadgets inside, but you’re sat on beanbag. It’s just not going to work is it!
Personally, we’ve been in the process of upgrading our office at home, and a chair is next on the list! So a quick google search for “best office chair” and one of the top results is PC mags top 10. And what’s this…. They are all “gaming chairs”!
Okay.. So maybe not as ridiculous as this one!
So does a gaming chair make a good office chair?
If you really think about it… If a child can sit still in it all day playing games, then it must be comfortable. They seem to tick all the boxes:
Lumbar support ✅
Arms and high backed ✅
Cushioned ✅
Maybe we need to test this theory. The more I look, the more of a minefield it seems to be searching through what constitutes a good office chair.
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So what should we do? What’s the plan to find the best chair that you can comfortably sit in for a long time?
Probably best that we field-test this idea and report back.
To Be Continued 👀