Ergonomics

How to Buy a New Desk Chair: The In-Store Sit Test

by Linda Varone on January 25, 2011

Last month I was buying some office supplies at my local Costco. In one of the side aisles I came across a man sitting in one of the office chairs for sale. Just sitting. He smiled and explained that he wanted to test out the chair before he bought it. I gave him a big [...]

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One of my clients had used a dining room chair as a desk chair for years. When she got a “real” office chair for her home office (at my urging), she was thrilled with how much more comfortable she was working at home. After the deluge of catalogues for holiday gift giving, we now have [...]

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The Great Debate: Sit or Move in Your Home Office

by Linda Varone on June 16, 2010

Did you see the treadmill desk demonstrated by Diane Sawyer on television, Or the articles in the New York Times that proclaimed “Your chair is your enemy.” If you spend most of your day sitting, even if you are a regular at the gym, you increase your risk for not only obesity and diabetes, but [...]

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