You’re Gonna Want to Sit Down for This: 6 High-End Desk Chairs Reviewed

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First-world problems don't get much bigger than having to pick out a chair in which you can sit comfortably all day while you're using your computer. But such is our existence, filled with fancy seating devices, often costing thousands of dollars.

Believe it or not, finding the right one isn't easy, often because fit is so subjective. What may be a perfectly comfortable chair for one user may be a back-killer for another. I'm a particularly difficult case -- 6'4" and 175 pounds -- meaning smallish chairs can be too shallow for my legs, while large ones are too wide for my torso.

The answer to that dilemma is adjustability, and the perfect chair should, in theory, be tweakable enough for anyone to use. Ergonomists will tell you this is a relatively simple five-step process.

Other adjustments primarily involve fine-tuning the above.

Once you set up your chair, the work isn't done. Ergonomic pros will tell you that you should keep moving throughout the day, so having a chair that can easily adjust to a variety of positions is key. (Steelcase says it identified nine modern working positions and built its latest chair to account for them, including "the smart lean" and "the strunch.") A gentle recline while typing is now generally recommended.

To that end, I tranced, cocooned, and strunched my way through the following six task chairs, using each in a typical desk environment for at least a full workday, often longer.

Here's how these seats shake out.

 

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