Just buy the expensive chair and stop worrying about it, from someone that didn’t listen.

This post is just for everyone out there that needs to hear what most of the mods and others on this sub are probably thinking when someone asks what kind of chair to get. I(32M) wfh and sit in a chair 8 hours a day at minimum. I’m 6’4” and about 260lbs, so when I started my search I only looked for heavy duty chairs.

I scrolled through chair review after chair review on here for months to see what I could get without opening the wallet. Come to find out I should’ve just listened in the first place.

Started with an amaz*n knockoff “ergo chair” for $50, used for a month and couldn’t take the back pain. Upgraded to a nicer “executive chair” for $150 from staples, just as bad and did not feel nearly as comfy even with all the positive reviews. Started getting sciatic nerve pain a couple weeks ago and finally pulled the trigger on a secondhand Herman Miller Aeron size C from FB marketplace for $400.

In one hour of sitting in it after proper adjustments on the chair and it was like a breath of fresh air for my back. Just make the investment and don’t cycle through unnecessary chairs like I did.

FWIW: I only sat in an aeron, a steelcase leap V2, and a 9to5 Tori from my company’s office. But the aeron was by far the best of those for my back.