For years I thought that ergonomic office furniture was a selection of chairs without backs that one was forced to contort themselves in order to be seated in. While this may have been true in the 1970s, when ergonomics came into play as a catch phrase for new designs specifically created to accommodate the human body, today ergonomic office furniture consists of a new generation of design elements that have been built into traditional office furniture construction. How is this done?
The premise of the original ergonomic design for office furniture was simply that we would support the lower back, arms and legs by use of current comfortable support points. The same elements now manifest themselves in our conventional office chairs as lumbar support and comfortable armrests set at specific heights, so as to support the upper body. Chair heights being adjustable allow for better lower leg circulation and proper line of sight to the now mandatory computer monitors.