It isn’t normally necessary to use a chair mat with an office chair when it’s being used on good quality carpeting, although they can be useful when the casters don’t roll easily because of the carpet pile. For other floor coverings, there are some situations where using a chair mat may be advisable. First, if [...]

On the face of it some office chairs appear incredibly expensive and you may find yourself asking how they can possibly charge so much for an office seat. At one end of the spectrum you’ve got the cheap chair where the maker just goes out and buys some off the shelf, mass produced stock components [...]

I think I can safely re-state this question by saying this is the most expensive office chair in the world. The aptly named Emporer weighs in at a cool $39,950 for the Windows version and another $2,000 for the Mac version. The Emperor was featured at CES 2009 this past week by Canadian company NovelQuest [...]

We weren’t really designed to sit for long periods, which probably explains why so many people find sitting all day in an office chair so uncomfortable. Although the vast improvement in office chair design over recent years has made it possible to achieve good working comfort when you invest in a good chair, weight gain [...]

I’d like to start this post by asking a question. Would you buy a Pentium 1 computer running Windows 95 with a 15 inch vga monitor as a business tool? Highly unlikely, nor would anyone in their right mind either. And yet it’s amazing how many people will do precisely this as they either continue [...]