Which Office Chair Is Right For Me?
Which Office Chair Is Right For Me?
Office chairs – we all rely on them and we all enjoy spinning around on them (come on, admit it!). But do we give enough thought to them? We spend so much of our lives at work so choosing the right seat really is vital to avoid going home with aches or pains.
This isn’t as straightforward as you might think though; office chairs vary considerably in terms of design and construction, as do our bodies! We’re all different shapes and have different preferences when it comes to comfort so it can be hard to come in on the chair of your dreams.
Fortunately for you, you’ve come to the right place. At Back Care Online, we have an array of different options to suit every need and fit every budget – and all of the chairs we sell are designed with ergonomics firmly in mind.
For today’s article, we’ve hand-picked some of the stand-out office chairs available on our site to help you identify which is right for you based on your budget and back care needs.
KOPLUS TONIQUE TASK CHAIR
Price: £435.00 £324.00
Seat Material: Mesh
Warranty: Five Years
Standout Feature: Automatic Tension Adjustment
A new addition to our range, Koplus is a Dutch firm specialising in workplace furniture, including desks, booths and of course office chairs. Their Tonique Task Chair is a modern-looking, lightweight mesh chair available in black and light grey.
The mesh material used for the seat varies in density, providing additional support where your body needs it most – your lower back and spine. It then thins out towards the top of the seatback, creating an impressive blend of support, flexibility, and comfor
Auto balance’ has to be Tonique’s stand-out feature. This proprietary system uses a self-regulating mechanism to automatically adjust the tension of the seatback, providing optimal comfort with no fuss.
HUMANSCALE DIFFRIENT WORLD OFFICE CHAIR
Price: £760.00 £546.16
Seat Material: Mesh
Warranty: 25 years
Standout Feature: Invisible Recline Mechanism
No, that’s not a typo – this seat is named after its designer, Niels Diffrient. His mission when creating this seat was to design 'the most minimal, full-function task chair ever made'. It’s certainly light, weighing in at 12.7 kg, and its pared-down design stands out in any of the three available colours: white, grey, and black.
This seat may look simple but there’s a lot of clever stuff going on in terms of comfort. The backrest uses a tri-panel, non-stretch mesh construction, with finely-honed contours designed to support your back in all the right places. The front edge of the seat has been eliminated too, reducing the pressure on the user’s knees
The Diffrient World seat utilises what Humanscale calls an 'invisible recline mechanism' which utilises the user’s body weight to automatically recline the chair the correct amount for maximum comfort – and minimal pressure on the back and spine.
HUMANSCALE LIBERTY TASK OFFICE CHAIR
Price: £850.00 £590.00
Seat Material: Mesh
Warranty: 25 years
Standout Feature: Automatic Lumbar Support
The Liberty seat from Humanscale is similarly priced and comes with a similarly attractive set of features. Sharing the Diffrient World’s robust construction and 25-year warranty, the Liberty is slightly larger than its sibling and a little heavier, tipping the scales at 15.4 kg. This means, however, that it has more adjustability in terms of height which may be worth the trade-off depending on your office setup.
Available only in black, the Liberty uses a mechanism-free design, allowing anyone to get comfortable with minimal effort. Like the Diffrient World, an intelligent automatic reclining system does away with the manual controls found on traditional office chairs, taking the guesswork and hassle out of workplace comfort.
Don’t think that means you have to sit still in one spot to be comfortable however – the Liberty responds to your movements, accommodating changes in posture in the blink of an eye.
KOPLUS SYMBIAN TASK CHAIR WITH HEADREST
Price: £890.00 £760.00
Seat Material: Mesh
Warranty: Five Years
Standout Feature: Dual Mechanism
With the Symbian, Koplus says it set out to create a simplified chair that was 'intelligently intuitive'. The manufacturer believes it’s achieved this brief, thanks to a dual mechanism that adapts the position of the seat in response to the user’s movements.
Much like the Tonique covered above, the Symbian incorporates Koplus' unique tension mechanism which effortlessly adjusts to optimally support the user’s back – eliminating complex and often confusing controls. Comfort is further enhanced with the addition of a mesh headrest.
The Symbian is available in white with a matching base or black with a polished aluminium base.
HUMANSCALE FREEDOM TASK OFFICE CHAIR WITH HEADREST
Price: £1,035.00 £735.16
Seat Material: Black Textile
Warranty: 25 years
Standout Feature: Articulating Headrest
Our best-selling model, the Humanscale Freedom, lives up to its name with its self-adjusting recline system and 'floating' armrests which move with the back of the seat to ensure the user is continuously supported.
It’s straightforward to use, with no knobs to twirl or levers to pull – the designers at Humanscale have done all the hard work instead, engineering the Freedom to respond to the user’s every move, no matter their body weight, shape, or posture
The Freedom also raises the bar in terms of comfort, incorporating an articulating headrest to support the head and neck as the user reclines in the seat. The headrest works in tandem with the aforementioned self-adjusting recline system, moving with the user to keep them comfortable throughout the day.
Whichever chair you opt for, you can buy with confidence here at Back Care Online. Many of the products on our website are supplied to the largest brands in healthcare including the NHS, Lloyds Pharmacy, Bupa and Nuffield Health.
A significant number of the products we sell are recommended by hundreds of health care professionals including doctors, chiropractors, osteopaths, and occupational therapists.
In short, all of the office chairs we sell put comfort – and back care – first.
If you’d like any additional information on the chairs featured in this article, you can reach out to us at support@backcareonline.co.uk
