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Facilities managers and office buyers searching for flexible seating often treat stacking chairs and folding chairs as the same category. Both store in a small footprint. Both work in multi-use spaces. Both cost less per seat than a dedicated office chair. That's where the similarities end. The two chair types have different storage profiles and diff … > READ MORE

Call center seating fails on a different schedule than standard office seating. A chair rated for single-shift, single-user occupancy will last 5 to 7 years in a private office. Put the same chair on a 24-hour rotation with three users per seat and it lasts 18 months before the cylinder fails or the mesh sags past the point of adjustment. Operations … > READ MORE

Most bulk office chair orders that go wrong follow the same script. The buyer selects a model online, places the order, and finds out four weeks later that the chairs are backordered. Or they arrive, and the seat height doesn't work for 30 percent of the staff. Or the upholstery is right but the weight capacity isn't rated for commercial use, and HR … > READ MORE

A procurement team ordering 50 chairs for a new office floor picks one model, one size, one weight capacity. That process moves fast. It also leaves a portion of the workforce in chairs that weren't built for them. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports the average weight for adult men is 199 pounds and for adult women is 170 pounds. A standard … > READ MORE

Most commercial chair orders that go wrong don't go wrong because of the chair. The chair arrives six weeks late because the vendor never had it in stock. It arrives with a cracked base and the damage claim takes two months to resolve. The buyer needed to pay by purchase order and found out at checkout that the vendor doesn't accept them. The replace … > READ MORE