I’m at a week-long business meeting and the conference room is equipped with hard plastic chairs. As bad as it is to sit on hard plastic all day, these chairs are also curved so that the front of the seat under your thighs is higher than the part where your butt is. They’re killing me and I start squirming after only a few hours.
Conference room chairs are the worst fucking furniture in the world. I picture a factory somewhere in China where they crank these out while the workers cackle maniacally.
I’ve never found a hard chair that doesn’t make my ass go numb in less than 30 minutes. My recommendation is to take the same route I do: a portable memory-foam, gel, or hybrid cushion.
The chairs in the link you provided look downright luxurious compared to some of the ones that I’ve had to sit in all day for years.
Try arriving early and fiddling with the myriad of adjustments (if the chairs you are sitting in are truly like the ones in the link). You’ll find a combination that’s more comfortable.
As the OP says three times, the chairs are hard plastic - shaped like the one in the picture which merely demonstrates the “thighs higher than butt” position. Not remotely adjustable.
And I agree with the recommendations to elevate your feet by whatever means you find available. Just a couple inches could make a world of difference. I’m short and the distance from the floor to my knees is often less than that of any given chair. I often need to sit forward and never use the backrest, or have to place my feet in tiptoe position which is uncomfortable after about 15 minutes. I’m not a fan of wearing heels, but a couple inch platform shoe can be really helpful.
That’s the problem, they’re designed for a size-shape which certainly isn’t mine; I do know I’m officially an outlier, though.
In one of the factories where I worked, the safety manager was an outlier as well, being almost 2m tall but surprisingly short when seated. When it came time to buy new chairs, instead of buying a single model he choose four different ones, asking those of us who had complained about the previous model being uncomfortable to pick one. So much better!
In another, my coworkers (all of them male, and the shortest some 4" taller than me) found the ergonomic armchairs perfectly comfortable. I found they gave me hip problems, which got solved by taking out the monster armchair and using one of the visitor’s chairs the guys found horribly uncomfortable.
My favorite type of chair isn’t ergonomic, or adaptable, or anything like that. It’s ladderbacks with straw seats They may not be ergonomic, but they fit my ass.
Yes, exactly. The edge of the seat cuts off circulation to my legs after a short while. The chairs also have a bump out “lumbar support” which just forces you to lean back if you don’t have scoliosis that matches the chair shape. If you want to sit up straight, like to look attentive during a business meeting, your lower back screams in minutes.
They may not be ergonomic, but they fit my ass.