What Do People Really Think About Their Office Chair?
Would you give your office chair the thumbs up? Does it make you feel happy, unhappy, comfortable, uncomfortable, is it worn out or broken? I set out to find the answers on what people really felt about their office chair.
I needed valuable topical, interesting and spontaneous opinions which captured just how people thought about their office chair as they are working in it. I decided the ideal way to investigate this would be through social media comments.
So, I analyzed key posts on the topic over a one month period. I discarded all the usual laugh at me stuff like chair races, running over toes, cats sleeping on chairs and worse, as they didn’t really contribute to how people felt about their office seat and was able to glean some great takeaways about what mattered most.
In all I discovered 165 relevant posts which were then separated into 5 broad categories and are listed below together with the percentage each category represented of the total comments.
| Category | Total | % Of Total |
| New Chairs | 52 | 31.50% |
| Advice On Chairs | 39 | 23.60% |
| Pain Problems | 32 | 19.40% |
| Shopping & Buying | 31 | 18.80% |
| Ball Chairs | 11 | 6.70% |
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In the second part of this article we get down to the key issues of what people had to say about their office chairs, good and bad. Look out for this next week.
Tags: back pain, ball chairs, office chair, Office Chairs
What a neat experiment. It’s interesting that the majority of the comments were about new chairs…could that be related to them needing advice about chairs or having pain problems? I am looking forward to your subsequent post about the key issues. As always, thanks for sharing!