It's perhaps more important to have the correct posture at the computer. Making sure your eyeline is correct and also the height of the keyboard. According to posters in my local hospital physio unit.
I've found arms on the chair get in the way of using keyboard and mouse.
We used nothing but Aeron at two places I worked.
At the second firm, we bought the Aeron chairs used from a bank, for a considerable savings. When the company hired you, they'd send you back to the warehouse area, to gather "bits and pieces" of Aeron to make a chair :-) There was nothing wrong with the chair I got, and no regrets. Apparently, some of the early hires in the company, spent time vetting and fixing chairs as one of their chores.
For the amount of money you pay for one, you really need to go to a showroom and try them out. There are three ass sizes, S/M/L. And my memory is fuzzy now, but at least two pivot styles. You can lean back in your chair, rock in the chair a bit, but I thought there was a style where the "hinge" was close to the front.
The fabric is a webbing, and one of the facets of this not addressed in the documentation, is you can "have a fart-storm with no regrets" :-)
The lumbar support isn't going to work, if you haven't sourced the correct size of chair.
It's not the perfect chair. You could probably have a chair custom-made which would fit better. But for anyone who had spent any time in cubicle-land, these chairs were the first attempt at "decent" seating. I've sat in Office Depot chairs before, and you "can't wait to go home" at the end of the day. You can work longer hours if you have arm rests.
Paul
I have a (now discontinued) IKEA Kapacitet chair which has performed very well for some years now.(1) My first attempt was a different (even more expensive) Operativ model, which had a floating mechanism which couldn't be locked out. Even slacked fully off, my puny upper-body mass was too small to overcome the spring, and it was permanently trying to tip me off.
BTW, adjustable arms are worth having.
One odd feature is that when there is nobody sitting on it, the castors have little brake pads applied, which makes it difficult to move to tuck under the desk and so forth.
What possible scenario have the safety people though up? Mass runaway following overnight subsidence? Chain reaction following unintentional furniture collision? Migration to kitchen on midnight food raid?
(1) The seat fabric wore through after about 7 years. I looked around for a suitable replacement chair, and found very little, so got out the sewing machine and produced a new cover. This lasted another 7 years before it too wore out, but I now have the job sussed, and it soon looked as good as new again.
I fear that next time I will probably have to replace the seat pad as well, since the local pressure from my bony posterior seems to be having a cumulative detrimental effect. Chris
One woud have hoped by now that "unavailable on-line" would have been an obsolete message from a store. Looks good otherwise.
I'm about the same weight and not well padded (the weight is elsewhere) - seems a common complaint with many chairs as well.
The leather-faced version is available on-line for another £20.
+1
Although I've had mine for less than a year.
Cheers
Dave R
Depends very much on what is hurting. You might just need a cushion or something. As we get older, just sitting seems to have issues around the old tail bone so the dreaded inner tube sort of cushion and a good back support are much more comfy, mind you lazing on the sofa is even more comfortable...
Brian
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