Ergonomic Seating

From the conference room to the waiting room, there are literally hundreds of chairs to choose from.  To make things even more interesting for business owners, human resources, facilities management and your purchasing department, seating makes a big difference in your employee morale and in overall injury prevention.  Basically, if your employees aren’t comfortable in their chair they don’t perform as well.  Fortunately, Office Furniture Solutions has done all the work for you, all the necessary research to make your shopping experience simple. 

Making your seating environment comfortable for your staff and your visitors requires considering the science of ergonomics.  So, let’s first take a look at that.  Ergonomics, by its shear definition is the application of scientific information concerning humans to the design of objects, systems and environment for human use (definition as stated by International Ergonomics Association in 2007).  Realistically, ergonomics as a complete practice should be thought of and applied to everything concerning human movement.  However, most commonly this applied science is only considered in the workplace environment.  But fortunately, that’s a good start.

The fastest growing segment of the ergonomic market and of most concern is its application to the overweight workforce and, for good reason.  According to the Centers for Disease Control 64 percent of our U.S. population is classified as overweight and even more, 30 percent as obese.  This, interestingly enough is not making its way into mainstream.  As a result, very few are aware of the choices available when it comes to comfortable seating.  Office Furniture Solutions takes all of this into consideration and can build your work environment into the most comfortable and functional surroundings.

Now let’s take a look at the chair, some different configurations and how they’re best suited for your environment.  When you look at your average office or conference chair, size and dimension don’t change much.  The seat itself typically ranges in width from an average of 19 ½ inches to 20 ½ inches. There is however more of a variation in the depth of your seat, ranging from 16 to 20 inches.  These are as mentioned the average chair.  At Office Furniture Solutions we understand that your office situation may not be so average.  And, we’re not alone.  Toyota Research redesigned their new Rav4 with 3 inch wider seats and termed them simply roomier.  Another important ergonomic configuration of the chair design to take into account is the arm-rests.  Making sure your chairs are designed with adjustable arm-rests can be crucial for someone that has a wider frame.     

In conclusion, you can rest assure that there is a chair for every environment and situation.  Equipping your workstations, your conference tables, your lobbies and your waiting rooms with the perfect chairs could be an enormous undertaking, not to mention complex for most.  The research into what will work best for every budget, the surrounding environment and situation has already been done.   We can easily show you how to put it all together.  Our goal is to equip your environment with accommodating ergonomic comfort and practical elegance at surprisingly affordable solutions.

Office furniture Solutions is a subsidiary of TradeIn.com so whether you are simply replacing existing furniture or orchestrating an entire corporate move our process brings it all together for you.  Our full service “solutions”-based process will simplify the entire transition.  Our experts immediately establish your existing equity position and determine your trade-in value which can quite often be rather substantial.   We then simply apply it to any purchase you make with our company.  Our goal is to allow you the opportunity to continue running your business as usual while we do the work for you.

Article by Jon Driscoll, Owner and CEO of Office Furniture Solutions by TradeIn.com,.