Office chairs

Are you looking for an office chair that suits your needs? Say goodbye to back pain and uncomfortable chairs! A design line associated with comfort: the backrest and seat are studied for pleasant working hours. Opt for the varied offer and find the office chair of your dreams.

History of office chairs :

The chair is a piece of furniture that is several millennia old, man having felt the need to sit down early in his history.

The office chair as we imagine it today is much more recent. Its development is coupled with the emergence of commercial and accounting professions and begins to take its modern form only in the late 18 s with the beginning of the development of the tertiary sector (service sector).

With Taylorism, the need for a sitting position for maximum productivity emerged. Nevertheless, the office chairs of this time were not very comfortable and caused back pain to employees who spent their day on it.

It was also at that time that was imagined the first design office seats, which were not very comfortable neither and not suitable for work.

The office chair, a serious piece of furniture

It was in the 195 s that the office chair became an object of thinking for engineers and designers who no longer seek to give it only an aesthetic appearance.

In addition, the military research conducted during the war led to innovations in terms of ergonomics. Ergonomics is the "Quantitative and qualitative study of work in the company, aimed at improving working conditions and increasing productivity. (The goal of this science is to try to adapt the work to man by analyzing in particular the different stages of the industrial work, their perception by the one who executes, the transmission of the information and, in a parallel way, the apprenticeship of the man who has to adapt to the technological constraints.) "(according to Larousse).

This is the moment when we begin to look for comfort in the making of armchairs.

Health and comfort

In the 7 s, ergonomic research were done jointly by engineers and doctors who realized the importance of having a chair that also can adapt to the body and stimulates the muscles. This is the beginning of dynamic seat.

It was also an aesthetic revolution for office chairs with flashy colors and plastic materials. This new material also made it possible to reduce the costs of the product and to generalize its use.

The computer age

In the late 199 s, computers and the tertiary sector continued to develop. This new use of the office will the transformation of armchairs, the latter then including headrests for example.

Today, chairs must also take into account the ecological constraint in the choice of their manufacturing materials and push ergonomics ever further for maximum comfort.

The office chair has a relatively turbulent history and has evolved a lot the last 1 years to become what we know today. And you what kind of chair will you choose?

How to choose your office chair?

Whether your home is your place of work or not, you spend many hours on your office chair, and you need to be well-behaved so that you can focus on arduous tasks. For this reason, the choice of your office chair is a crucial decision for your well being at work. And the better the working conditions are, the more productive you will be !

Determine your chair use

To properly choose your chair, you must already determine how much time you will spend on it.

You do not need the same comfort if it serves you only half an hour a day or if your back is stuck there more than 6 hours daily. You must also take into account your morphology.

If you have blood circulation problems in the legs for example, avoid too straight seat and prefer those inclined down. The armrests also help to relieve the muscles of the upper body, those increases your comfort if you spend a lot of time on your office chair.

The different types of office chairs

There are different mechanisms for office chairs. You will need to choose the one that best suits your activity and your use.

- The standard chair can only be adjusted in height and its backrest is fixed, like the CHIPIE OFFICE CHAIR.

- The centered tilting system with the backrest which tilts back and forth and looks a little like the permanent contact system that allows your back to always be glued to the backrest as on the ERGONOMIC OFFICE CHAIR BELOU.

- The decentered tilting system follows each of your movements, whether at the backrest level or at seat level, and allows your feet to always be in contact with the ground.

- Finally, the synchronous system, the most ergonomic mechanism of all, that follows all of your movements and provides comfort over a long period of sitting as the CORNUE OFFICE CHAIR.

Have a good working position

To maximize your chances of working in good conditions, a good chair is not enough, your must also adopt a good working position.
Some simple rules : 

Nothing complicated, you just need to respect some easy rules.

Firstly, as nowadays we work a lot on computers, you have to make sure to put our eyes at the height of the screen. We tend to put the computer on the desk and therefore look down, what is bad for the sight and the back. In addition to that, the neck tenses and become painful after a few hours. However, do not place the screen too high either, it would put you in a bad position that compresses the vertebrae.

The elbows must form a 9 ° angle. For this, the adjustable armrests are a good way to rest the muscles of the arms without forcing them to go up. The ARMCHAIR OFFICE COQUETTE is a good office chair with armrests.

Finally your feet should be on the floor and you have to avoid to cross your legs. You can do this by using a footrest.

Another tip if you have back pain on a chair a little uncomfortable, think to bring back your feet as much as possible to force you to keep your back straight.

For maximum comfort, consider maintaining your chair by hoovering it regularly to remove dust and air the fabric.

You should keep in mind, that sitting to much can be bad for your back. To maximize your effectiveness and reduce the risk of pain, consider getting up regularly to take a few steps and practice regular physical activity.

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