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Whether for your staff or for yourself while working, it is important to select good quality ergonomic office chairs, even if the final selection is a little expensive, it will be worth it in the long run. This could mean more productivity, lesser people falling sick or not reporting for work due to back related ailments and more enthusiastically working employees.

When selecting office chairs, you choose, keep the various employees in mind and if they have any specific physical ailments. Also, you can keep in mind, the space at the particular work desks of various staff.

Executive chairs are meant for those who are not at their desk the whole day, but need to go out of the office for a few hours every day on the other hand task chairs are suitable for those employees who will be their desk for long periods during the day, if not the whole day.

If you are just looking for an executive chair, you could get it for approximately one hundred dollars but if you are looking for good quality ergonomic office task chair, the cost could even go up to one thousand dollars per chair.

You need to begin by having a clear idea of how much your budget can stretch up to, since if the budget is a constraint, no point in looking at chairs which are very expensive. After all you will need to purchase chairs for the entire office and some for visitors as well.

Please keep in mind that the cheaper chairs will not provide good support to your back –of course, in that case, you can choose to supplement the chairs with some cushions since that will definitely provide some support for the lumbar region.

Please make sure that your chair can be adjusted. Please also ensure that when one is seated on the chair, your feet should be comfortably flat on the floor - the same goes for the arms, they should be more or less in line with your desk. As far as height of the chair is concerned, anything between sixteen and twenty one inches from the floor should be alright. As fare as width of the seat is concerned, seventeen to twenty inches should suffice.

The most important aspect you need to pay attention to would be the lower back since that is what can hurt after sitting for long periods in chairs which are not comfortable and in incorrect seating postures. The best ergonomic office chairs will have a lumbar adjustment feature both for height as well as for depth.