I sit for hours every day; had an Aeron but am now using the Humanscale Freedom chair.
We had an ergonomics assessment at my former employer, and were given a couple of high end chairs to try over a week. We liked the Freedom chair best. It has a gel covered seat, which I personnaly prefer to the Aeron mesh which started to rip into pants after a while. The Aeron also has a rigid frame around the seat mesh, which can dig into into your legs and become quite uncomfortable after a longer time.
The best aspect of the Freedom chair though is the backrest, which is counterbalanced by bodyweight. Love my Freedom chair. It's pricey, but considering the time I'm spending on it, it's totally worth it.
Yeah, that site is totally lame.
The Aeron mesh is like sitting on a tennis racket. If you're an overweight executive then you'll definitely avoid moist seat syndrome. However, if you're an underweight geek then its not so good.
An good ergonomic chair is an excellent investment if you spend most of your day in one.
Aeron is by far the best office chair I have ever had, and is definitely worth the (quite hefty) price.
Love the Aeron. I've had mine break a number of times since 2000 (the seat, the ball bearings, etc) and no matter where it was (Cambridge, Boulder, Chicago) they repaired it free and more quickly than I'd expected.
now that this has been switched to so smarmy affiliate chair site can we please no longer vote it up?
he just built a site trying to SEO for office chairs. if there's good content, even if it's a for profit site, no real reason to ignore it
Well spotted, folks. Thankfully the <a rel="nofollow"> handles that problem.
there are no affiliates links there...
haha my bad, you created a spammy, built for adsense site, not an affiliate site. Sorry, my mistake.
the aeron is a solid chair, but not my pick. I have a Knoll Life that I really like but I have had my eye on a few others, like the Haworth Zody and Steelcase Leap