Gaming chairs have become prevalent, but shameless copy-pasting by most "manufacturers" has led to a stagnant industry with poor value vs. even cheap office ...
100% recommend only buying a Herman Miller if you can find one secondhand. It’s a decent chair but I’d never in a million years pay retail price for it.
Also, they do have one flaw: if you’re on the heavier side, when you lean back all the way your ass kinda high-centers on a ridge in the middle of the base. It’s not horrifically uncomfortable, but it is rather off-putting when it happens.
100% recommend only buying a Herman Miller if you can find one secondhand. It’s a decent chair but I’d never in a million years pay retail price for it.
I bought the Embody last year during their Black Friday Sale, sadly it was the worst chair I ever had. I gave it a solid 4 months of testing but regardless of what I was doing with the settings it never felt comfortable and I got a bad neck and shoulder pain after an hour or two sitting in it.
Sold it for a nice price, made some additional money because those chairs go away like crazy and bought me a Leap from Steelcase.
So keep in mind that even expensive office chairs are not made for everyone
I got my job to buy my Embody during WFH pandemic since our office was stocked with them and Aerons. I used to have major back problems from my old chair and I can’t emphasize this enough: they disappeared within a month of getting this chair.
I’d honestly buy one myself retail if I had to. Yeah it’s expensive and people can use that as an excuse not to like it but it is in fact legit properly designed. The way I look at it is like mattresses: you spend 1/3 your life on one so it’s worth the investment. If you work at desk, that’s another sizable percentage of your life so why not invest accordingly?
As a funny related note, I did end up getting the gaming version of the Logitech x Embody because by some fluke it was slightly cheaper than the standard model at the time. I’ve sat in both and definitely like the fabric feel and slightly extra padding of the Logitech model. Also teal and black/grey are my favorite color combo without looking overly “gamer”.
100% recommend only buying a Herman Miller if you can find one secondhand. It’s a decent chair but I’d never in a million years pay retail price for it.
Also, they do have one flaw: if you’re on the heavier side, when you lean back all the way your ass kinda high-centers on a ridge in the middle of the base. It’s not horrifically uncomfortable, but it is rather off-putting when it happens.
I bought the Embody last year during their Black Friday Sale, sadly it was the worst chair I ever had. I gave it a solid 4 months of testing but regardless of what I was doing with the settings it never felt comfortable and I got a bad neck and shoulder pain after an hour or two sitting in it.
Sold it for a nice price, made some additional money because those chairs go away like crazy and bought me a Leap from Steelcase.
So keep in mind that even expensive office chairs are not made for everyone
I got my job to buy my Embody during WFH pandemic since our office was stocked with them and Aerons. I used to have major back problems from my old chair and I can’t emphasize this enough: they disappeared within a month of getting this chair.
I’d honestly buy one myself retail if I had to. Yeah it’s expensive and people can use that as an excuse not to like it but it is in fact legit properly designed. The way I look at it is like mattresses: you spend 1/3 your life on one so it’s worth the investment. If you work at desk, that’s another sizable percentage of your life so why not invest accordingly?
As a funny related note, I did end up getting the gaming version of the Logitech x Embody because by some fluke it was slightly cheaper than the standard model at the time. I’ve sat in both and definitely like the fabric feel and slightly extra padding of the Logitech model. Also teal and black/grey are my favorite color combo without looking overly “gamer”.