It is essential to have a good chair. If you want to support your buttocks, you must also support your waist. For us office workers, many offices are cubicles. While parts of people like swivel chairs with wheels, others feel that lifting, steering, and wheels are not necessary.
How to choose between these two types of seating?
Swivel chair
Advantage:
· Liftable: The leg should be 90° to the ground in a correct sitting posture. But each person’s height is different, and the chair with a fixed size is generally designed according to the height of most people.
Can be swiveled: This is more suitable for work tables with a large working range. For example, in the case of multiple screens, it is enough to swivel the chair, and there is no need to turn the body hard. Some people sit dishonestly and want to change their posture after sitting for a while. The swivel chair can be moved left and right and adjusted.
· Castor: easy to move. The position of the chair is different when sitting down and standing up, and the castor makes it easy to move. I remember that the chairs used by colleagues in the company used to be made of wood and iron base. Colleagues would drag the chairs when they sat down or stood up, and the sound of the chairs rubbing against the floor would give goosebumps every time they heard it. The castors of the swivel chair are generally silent design, rolling back and forth without noise.
Disadvantage:
· Potential safety hazard: An gas lift is used to lift chairs, and an unqualified gas lift will explode. I believe many people know its power. Therefore, if you choose a swivel chair, you must select one with SGS certification, and it is best to have an explosion-proof mechanism as double insurance. A chair should be not only comfortable but also safe.
· Expensive: Swivel chairs have more functions and higher costs, so the price is much higher than non-swivel chairs.
· Difficult to take care of the castors: chairs often slide around on the ground, which will inevitably wear out, and the castors will also be stained with things on the ground, especially hair embedded in the gaps of the castors, which is difficult to take good care of.
Visitor Chair
Advantage:
The biggest advantage is that the height of the tables and chairs that people use can be adjusted to suit the body of different people, so that people will not suffer from various diseases, such as myopia and hunchback, due to the fixed table. More stable, stronger load-bearing capacity, smaller ground footprint, and higher safety.
Disadvantage:
· There is no headrest. The backrest of many visitor chairs is very short, without a headrest, there is no protective effect on the cervical spine. And the backrest of some visitor chairs meets the requirements, but there is no headrest, which is unqualified.
· Non-adjustable armrests: Many visitor chairs on the market do not have this function, which is not very adaptable to the shoulders.
· Hydraulic lifting mechanism: Due to the unstable pressure, the inferior lifting mechanism may burst at any time, causing fatal injury to people.
· There is no lumbar support: the lumbar support is a part that protects the lumbar spine of the human body
Summary
In fact, compared with swivel chairs and visitor chairs at the same price, visitor chairs are still more comfortable. So if there is no need for running and the company’s office space is small, visitor chairs are more recommended.
Another thing to remind is that an ergonomic chair cannot help you correct your sitting posture. It just makes your leaning more comfortable and reduces the risk of neck, waist, and back diseases while you maintain a correct sitting posture.
For your and my health, it is suggested that even with the assistance of ergonomic chairs, proper exercise, coupled with the assistance of ergonomic chairs, can we maintain our long-term health.