What do you think is the best office chairs?

Most of office staff may follow the daily routine of working in the office from nine to five as well as sitting in the office chair for at least eight hours. Such office life seems comfortable because there is no busy business trip, no hard physical labor. But why still a lot of us suffer from back pain?

Prolonged sitting in the office chairs has much to do with various health issues. Then a lot of people concern about the quality of office chairs. It is not right to attribute the back pain completely to the office chairs, yet ergonomic chairs or better office chairs can improve our sitting experience, thus reducing the back issues if we learn to sit in right position and get more rest during the work.

The use of back friendly office chairs is more and more emphasized among employers for a healthy working environment. We work for life, but we may never accept the fact that our better life is gained at the cost of health issues. We need better work environment, which needs to offer us a work friendly desk space and ergonomic office tools including keyboards, monitors or furniture.

What type of office chair are you sitting in right now? Is it more expensive executive style office chairs or just those plastic chairs without any adjustable features? If the case is the latter one, try to remind your boss about the better office chair. If the office chairs updated at your office are those one-size-fits-all chairs, you still need to tell you boss that this is not the best choice. Then what is the best office chair?

Modern office now put more emphasis on the style of office life. We can see the common substitute of colored chairs common for those traditionally black or gray chairs. Style is important for modern office chair and also crucial for inspiring creativity or enhancing mood of office staff. But for more efficient and healthy office life, chairs that incorporate the feature of health benefits shall be prioritized. The best office chairs shall be nicely designed for diversified office life and also consider the features of health benefits, including:

Arm rests of the office chair need to be low enough to allow the office staff to rest the shoulders comfortably. The arm rests of the chair also needs to be designed to the effect that we can bend our elbow at a comfortable ninety degree angle.

Besides, the ergonomic office chair shall be designed with adjustable seat height. Usually, we can not adjust the height of our desk, but we need to adjust the height of our office chairs because different office staff may differ in height or foot length. The height of the office chair shall be adjusted until our feet can be put flat on the floor with our arms at the height of our desk.

For comfortable sitting, we may need some extra cushioning. The chair needs to be made from breathable fabric so that we can sit comfortably for long hours.

One obvious feature of best ergonomic chair is its lumbar support. Our backs are naturally curved inward. Thus for right and comfortable sitting posture, we need to chairs to offer us enough support and this can be well done with specially designed lumbar accessory.