I recommend visiting your local Office Depot/OfficeMax. They have an entire section of office chairs that you can sit in to try out. They also tend to have regular sales around this time of year. Trying out 50 different chairs at an Office Depot/OfficeMax will at least give you an idea of what you like and don't like. If you plan on sitting in the same chair for hours and hours on end, it really needs to be comfortable to sit in. There are certain purchases that really should be done in person. Other local area furniture stores will also carry office chairs but probably won't offer as much variety, won't be lined up in neat rows for you to quickly evaluate all of them, and will probably cost more (but probably be of higher quality and last a bit longer).
I prefer something in leather but, for me, any chair I sit in must have a high back for correct head and neck support. If I don't have proper head and neck support, the chair will give me a migraine every single day (been there, done that - migraines are not fun). Faux leather is less expensive but the downside to faux leather is that after a few years, the top layer starts to peel off of the sprayed rubber/glue and cloth layers underneath.
When trying out chairs, be sure you pull out the bar underneath that keeps the chair from leaning back when it is in the locked position. It's perhaps personal preference but I am much more comfortable sitting in a chair that can be casually leaned back a bit. I think the office supply stores push in the lean bars on the cheaper chairs so customers think they are less comfortable than the more expensive chairs, which tend to have the lean bars pulled out.
Not sure about your Office Depots, but mine here is garbage. Everything is way overpriced and their selection of chairs is very minuscule and really really... abstract? They have but one "normal" office chair. Everything else is like they're trying to sell to kids and not office professionals.
I recommend visiting your local Office Depot/OfficeMax. They have an entire section of office chairs that you can sit in to try out. They also tend to have regular sales around this time of year. Trying out 50 different chairs at an Office Depot/OfficeMax will at least give you an idea of what you like and don't like. If you plan on sitting in the same chair for hours and hours on end, it really needs to be comfortable to sit in. There are certain purchases that really should be done in person. Other local area furniture stores will also carry office chairs but probably won't offer as much variety, won't be lined up in neat rows for you to quickly evaluate all of them, and will probably cost more (but probably be of higher quality and last a bit longer).
I prefer something in leather but, for me, any chair I sit in must have a high back for correct head and neck support. If I don't have proper head and neck support, the chair will give me a migraine every single day (been there, done that - migraines are not fun). Faux leather is less expensive but the downside to faux leather is that after a few years, the top layer starts to peel off of the sprayed rubber/glue and cloth layers underneath.
When trying out chairs, be sure you pull out the bar underneath that keeps the chair from leaning back when it is in the locked position. It's perhaps personal preference but I am much more comfortable sitting in a chair that can be casually leaned back a bit. I think the office supply stores push in the lean bars on the cheaper chairs so customers think they are less comfortable than the more expensive chairs, which tend to have the lean bars pulled out.
Not sure about your Office Depots, but mine here is garbage. Everything is way overpriced and their selection of chairs is very minuscule and really really... abstract? They have but one "normal" office chair. Everything else is like they're trying to sell to kids and not office professionals.
Bummer. Other than this:
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I don't have any other recommendations.