| Let's say you show up to work and your office | | | | your situation is important. If you have a job that |
| furniture had magically transformed overnight. | | | | requires a lot of time at the computer, then a |
| Now, instead of a nice ergonomic leather chair to | | | | basic desk will serve you well. You don't have the |
| sit comfortably at, there is a heavy plastic milk | | | | need for storing lots of papers, files, and supplies. |
| carton sitting dutifully on the floor in front of your | | | | You just need something for your monitor and a |
| new desk, which is a piece of plywood sitting | | | | few other things. On the other hand, if you are |
| across some cinder blocks. And over by the | | | | someone who manages lots of paperwork then |
| window, where your nice cherry bookshelf used | | | | you may need a desk with lots of storage. |
| to be, you find a new system for storing your | | | | Probably the most important piece of office |
| manuals, software and books - a card table with | | | | furniture is the office chair. This is where the |
| stacks of stuff all over it. Where, you wonder, is | | | | magic happens. Many people spend literally hours |
| your printer? You look around and discover that | | | | and hours at their desk in their chair. Obviously, it |
| instead of it sitting nicely next to your desk on its | | | | is more comfortable to be in the right chair rather |
| solid oak stand, it now exists, in shame, | | | | than in the wrong one. And any chair is probably |
| precariously perched atop an old fruit box. | | | | going to be better than sitting on a milk crate. In |
| Office furniture is obviously an important aspect | | | | my opinion, you should spend as much as you can |
| of our modern world. Many times we take for | | | | afford on a good chair for you to use. I say for |
| granted the important role that in plays in our day | | | | you, because what may be good for someone |
| to day lives. Most of us are pretty used to having | | | | else may not be a good choice for you. My |
| office furniture that is useful, attractive, and | | | | partner's chair has all these fancy adjustments, |
| functional. If you showed up at your office to the | | | | including tilt to the actual seat. When I sit in her |
| changes I mentioned above, you would certainly | | | | chair (with her settings) I feel like the thing is |
| want your old stuff back. No doubt about it. | | | | going to tip me so far forward that I am going to |
| Thankfully, our things don't transform that way | | | | fall out. But, for them it is just right. I just need |
| and we can do our thing as usual. But, it does | | | | some basic options for up and down, back and |
| make one consider what office furniture we opt | | | | forth, and round and round. |
| to use, and how we use it, and how having the | | | | The whole point to all of this is to remember that |
| right pieces make all the difference. | | | | when you are buying office furniture, get the best |
| Take the basic desk. It is really just a surface to | | | | you can that you will be happy with using. Getting |
| work on. Nothing particularly complex about it is | | | | the wrong pieces will make you less effective, |
| really required. It may or may not have drawers, | | | | less healthy, and unhappy. On the other hand, the |
| pullouts, shelves, hutches, or other features. Or, it | | | | right pieces will only add to the quality of your life. |
| may be just plain Jane. Whether it does or does | | | | The right office furniture really does make all the |
| not have all the extras, having the right one for | | | | difference. |