Category: Steelcase
Office furniture is a great place to start taking responsibility for your environmental impact in the home office. Desks, shelves and chairs can do more damage to the environment than simply using up energy and natural resources when they’re manufactured. They can also introduce toxic chemicals into the environment, both during their manufacture and after their disposal.Continue
Last week, I posted “Open Thread: Which Office Chair to Buy?” an attempt to get input on an upcoming office chair purchase. The feedback was indeed excellent, to the point that I decided to go for a more upmarket, high-quality chair than those I was originally considering. I had to lift my budget to around £200 ($300) to get even a secondhand version of the chair I chose, but the extra spending was worth it. As several commenters on my post pointed out, given the amount of time that I’ll spend using it, scrimping would be a false economy, especially given the back problems I’d had in the past. Additionally, a well made high-quality chair should easily last for 10 years or more.Continue
