The way we work today is fluid. Mobile devices untether employees from their desks and allow them to easily take their work from space to space, depending on the task at hand. As a result, employers are rethinking the workplace to provide a variety of spaces that support and inspire employees, as they cycle through different modes of creativity and work throughout the day. As leaders reflect on how to best support their people in these different work modes, they must think about their physical well-being and most especially the chairs they occupy throughout the day. Typical task chairs were designed for a traditional understanding of work, built around a vision of an employee spending all or most of their day in a dedicated space and a dedicated chair. But, for increasingly mobile workers - who don't find themselves in one location all day -the benefit of typical task chairs backfires as the variety of knobs, levers and adjustments proves overly complex and time-consuming. As a result, employees typically move from one poorly adjusted chair to the next, undermining the potential for comfort and ergonomic support.
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