Saxophone

5y

That's going to destroy your back

Get a proper ergonomic chair like a Herman Miller, there is a healthy used market because offices buy/replace them in fleets

This is the one I have, humanscale freedom

My company doesn't care about me enough to sit my ass in a $1000 chair so I found one on craigslist for $30 and brought it in myself

donalddrumpf

5y

Why are they bad for your back?

Saxophone

5y

When it comes to your back and sitting in an upright desk position especially for extended periods like at the office, your back needs something firm and supportive rather than soft and mushy.

This is why all the high end most expensive office furniture look so minimal, and run so expensive, a lot of science went into finding the optimal position and material for your back and it goes a lot deeper than "shove as much memory foam underneath it as possible"

A proper office chair shouldn't feel plush or really "comfy," it should leave you feeling neutral at the end of the day with zero fatigue

donalddrumpf

5y

Got it, you got any useful links on this data?

I have heard a lot about this, but there is so much conflicting data

I could also get a more firm cushion, right?

Saxophone

5y

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3552974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326090/
https://www.webmd.com/back-pain/news/20061129/back-pain-eased-by-sitting-back

I can assure you just from my real life experience, the difference is night and day noticeable

Not sure if a firmer cushion would be the solution, I'm led to believe any "additional" lumbar support you add onto the chair is always going to be worse than a properly designed chair with lumbar support already built in.

My office has plenty of those little pringle-chip mesh cushion lumbar supports that slide onto the back of any office chair, they never work right

donalddrumpf

5y

Thanks a lot man, I will take a look into those links and those chairs u posted

I don't have a super high budget rn.

I assume my office (good financial company) has decent chairs, but my home has a basic big reclining office chair. It is only comfy for so long, not the whole day

By built in lumbar support, do u mean like a cushion built in like this or do you mean like those or just the ergonomic chairs with with no cushion

Saxophone

5y

That chair looks like it has "built in" faux lumbar support in the sense that it is stitched and not removable. Looks really uncomfortable, might even do more damage to your posture/spine health

I'd avoid anything that looks like that, or anything with a removable lumbar pillow like this

There are removable lumbar supports for the high end chairs like the Herman miller Aeron

But I consider these part of the design since they sit internally and support your back from within the chair, rather than adding additional cushioning to the front of the chair

Saxophone

5y

That's going to destroy your back

Get a proper ergonomic chair like a Herman Miller, there is a healthy used market because offices buy/replace them in fleets

This is the one I have, humanscale freedom

My company doesn't care about me enough to sit my ass in a $1000 chair so I found one on craigslist for $30 and brought it in myself

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5y

finding an herman miller for $30 is like winning the lotto..

Saxophone

5y

Well mine is a Humanscale Freedom which is slightly different

But there are lots of stories of people getting free HM Aerons especially in big metroplexes because there are more offices and that means more used chairs when they liquidate their furniture and resellers/employees scoop them up. Sometimes they're free, sometimes they're $30, I got an aeron for $200 once from craigslist and it was still a good deal considering msrp is $1000+