One thing scientists and anyone who works in an office will agree on is that sitting at a desk all day can cause many problems physically. Therefore, it’s important to purchase furniture that’s ergonomic, making it easier for the building occupants you serve to work without added strain.
Here’s a list of 17 companies who can help you outfit your office with furniture that will ensure comfortable working conditions.
Herman Miller
This company is well known as a synonym for “modern furniture,” but it also is known for its ergonomic office furniture. Herman Miller’s website also features several articles that stress the importance of this topic, and discusses several products that the company makes to help the physical well-being of people whose jobs require them to sit behind a desk all day.
The company even has a collection of sit-and-stand desks, which allows employees to adjust the position of the desk as they do their work in throughout the day.
Relax The Back
Relax The Back earns a spot on this list because it designs all of its furniture to be ergonomic. The company has formed partnerships with countless doctors, nurses and other medical care professionals. It’s these relationships with the medical community that has put “Relax The Back” in a unique position — that of a specialty healthcare furniture retailer.
Knoll
Knoll has products available that were designed by several ergonomic experts specifically to prevent pain in a person’s back and neck.
A prime example of this is found in the company’s 2005 Chadwick Chair, created by Don Chadwick, an ergonomics expert and prominent office chair designer. The chair moves away from the overly complicated, overly designed chairs that are seen more in the market in favor of a design that is simple yet comfortable.
Humanscale
Humanscale strives to make its furniture ergonomically sound yet intuitive for users. The company has its own in-house team of ergonomists who consult on every project and design.
ConSet
ConSet is solely a manufacturer of sit/stand tables, and ConSet’s height-adjustable desks are some of the most budget-friendly options available. That was intentional: The company’s founders felt these tables were too expensive, so they founded the company to make such ergonomic desks more accessible to everyone.
Bodybilt
Bodybilt is “obsessed with stress-free posture” and is a good one to consider because the company puts its products through extensive testing to ensure the quality and comfort of the furniture. Another benefit is that BodyBilt’s products are created using renewable materials, such as soy-based foam, making its products both ergonomic and environmentally friendly.
Workrite
Workrite’s products are not only ergonomic, but also adaptable to evolving tastes and needs in office design. Most importantly, though, Workrite understands that happy, healthy workers are more productive, and that’s why its products are designed to provide a more comfortable work experience.
ESI: Ergonomic Solutions
ESI: Ergonomic Solutions is known as a leading producer of ergonomic work tools that enhance productivity and wellness. It also provides quality customer service and has a 48-hour shipping period on all products, which is nice if you’re on a tight deadline.
Another nice point about ESI: Its sustainability policy compels the company to work toward the continuous improvement of environmental performance and pollution prevention.
Varier
Varier keeps one thing in mind when designing its chairs: movement. Basically, as you move throughout the day, so does the furniture. This ensures that you’re both comfortable and supported, and therefore more productive as you do your work.
Haworth Design Studio
Haworth Design Studio provides the design, the furniture and the technology for businesses that need new (or refreshed) office spaces. The company recognizes the need for furniture to be adaptable and ensures that its products are adaptable for whenever you decide to renovate your business.
Haworth truly is one of Western Michigan’s great success stories, too. It employs more than 6,000 people, and according to LinkedIn’s numbers, the average employee spends almost a decade there.
Klöber
Klöber in Germany understands that people are not meant to sit behind a desk all day. They are meant to move around and supply their brain, organs and muscles with oxygen.
Klöber’s chairs are reported to help reduce neck soreness, back pain, headaches, cardiovascular issues, digestive problems and difficulty concentrating. These chairs also have very cool features, including climate control.
Owl Furniture
Owl Furniture was given a grant from the Maine Technology Institute to fund an analytical study by US Ergonomics in 2013 to conduct research that ultimately led the company to develop the Owl Stool.
The company discovered that traditional stools put pressure on the ischial muscles, and in order to relieve this pressure a person will tip their pelvis back, which eventually causes slouch, strain and pain in the lumbar spine.
Therefore, the Owl Stool has holes that prevent pressure on a person’s ischial muscles. This removes the temptation to slouch and keeps the spine naturally aligned.
Xybix
If any of your building’s tenants have an emergency-response call center or any other operations that require dispatchers to mobilize quickly, looking into Xybix. The Colorado-based company builds user-friendly, highly customizable ergonomic dispatch consoles and furniture systems that help employees to get into their productivity zone and stay there.
RFM Seating
RFM Seating has been building fully customizable, ergonomic seating for a healthy and productive workforce for the past 35 years.
The company has a vast selection of chairs where you can customize the fabric, seat size, back height and arm options — and those custom chairs can be sent to you within 10 working days, or even 48 hours with the company’s QuickShip program. This makes RFM a good choice if you want to furnish your company with ergonomic furniture fast.
The HON Company
The HON Company has a wide selection of ergonomic furniture designed for the health and comfort of the employees who use them. HON designs each product to be timeless, rather than trendy. This ensures that while its products are simple, they are durable enough that the company still to this day gets requests for filing cabinets that it built in the 70s.
X-Chair
The X-Chair has 10 ergonomic features, all of which help you adjust the supports of the chair, which the company says makes the chair “glove-like” in that it forms to a person’s body when they sit in it. For anyone who gets back pain from a desk chair, having a seat this accommodating can help support and take weight off of the lumbar area of the back, which can relieve lower back pain quickly.
Ergohuman
Ergohuman prides itself on its ability to make ergonomic furniture that is stylish and fits most body types. It also has the option to sign up for discounts and special deals on its products, making this company not only ergonomic, but also potentially cost-efficient for an FM.
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