Does the chair make a difference?
The billboard was always going to catch my eye. They say that a dentist will look at your teeth & if you are in the furniture game … any reference to furniture will not go unnoticed!
I immediately understood that if you’re in the business of treating people’s backs then you will want to make the case that your service is the only real solution. The irony was however that the statement was in fact completely false. The truth is that I had heard people say these exact words! “my office chair makes my back feel great”. It wasn’t said from a clinical expert viewpoint. It was said from an experiential basis.
With over 35 years of fitting chairs to suit specific user situations we had seen some incredible results. In one case a senior manager called me to say that his executive assistant had been going home in tears at lunch time every day on experiencing serious discomfort and was worried about not been able to continue working. We had assessed the situation and supplied a quality ergonomic task chair and the same team member was now able to work through a full day … and was more comfortable leaving the office at closing time than she had been at any time of the day previously.
In more recent times … we are just as likely to be doing full days from our homes … but be it at the office or working remotely … we do see some very measurable differences in people’s comfort if they are sitting in an appropriate swivel task chair that is correctly adjusted. It was one of the reasons Offiscape developed the ChairFit program and in 2024 we are reminding our clients that we provide an exceptional service in helping match your people to the right task chair.
International studies have shown that the flexibility to adapt our work environment to suit our personal comfort is the biggest factor in employee satisfaction and ultimately retention. Having a work chair that provides optimal posture support is still one of the most critical elements of our work environment. You don’t have to wait for a whole office refit to revisit the task chairs your team are sitting in. To discuss the ways our ChairFit program have changed the employee satisfaction level and improved productivity of organisations give us a call today.