What We Need to Consider When Choosing Office Chairs for Home Office?

What type of chairs are you using now in your home office? Is it a well selected chair or just a chair that you even use it when you enjoy the dinner? Chair for our home office is still an investment especially for those who have home based business or who have to sit on the chair for long hours.

For less body aches or back issues after prolonged sitting in the home office, it is necessary to consider some factors when we choose a new home office chair or it is necessary to update the chair which is not comfortable we are using now.

How frequent you have to sit at your home office?

Do you often have to sit in the office chair for a long period of time dealing with a lot of computer work or answering phone calls? Or you have to sit in front of your desk many times a day, though each time the sitting does not last too long? You need an ergonomic chair that offers maximum comfort and good support. It is really important to get a quality ergonomic chair for comfortable sitting if we sit in the home office too frequently. Wrong support or no support from the poor chairs may easily cause back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain or tail bone pain, which may eventually affect our productivity and we may hardly focus at our work. If we only need to sit in the chair for email-checking time, it does not matter as for whatever chair we choose.

Balance Style and Comfort of Home Office Chairs

Unlike the chairs in the corporate workplace, chair at our own home office can be something personal. Besides the basic function of being adjusted based on our comfort level or other needs such as height, home office chair needs to be nice, for it can be a decoration for our office. Since there are a lot of chair types available, we can choose kneeling chair or ball chairs that combine style and comfort well. Or choose ball chairs that bring us comfort and still look cool.

Consider Proper Sitting Posture

Working at corporate office, we may be pressured to sit in a standard posture. Yet when we work at home, we feel relaxed and sometimes we just sit in a position as long as we feel comfortable. But the posture can be wrong or harmful. To avoid poor posture, we need to choose chairs with arms and adjustable height. If our work involves a lot of keyboard activities, we can choose a chair without arm. If we have to write a lot of things, choose a chair that can offer us proper hand alignment with the desk so that we can avoid hand pain.