Steelcase Leap Office Chair - Seven Points of Adjustability - Ergonomic Back Support Chair - Lumbar Support - 4D Adjustable Arms - Black Frame - Buzz2 Black Fabric

Had the chair for a week. Easy to set adjustments while watching online videos. Was unsure until adjusted the seat pan, then, Ta-Da! Works well. Chair comes completely assembled (don't know why there's a choice to add an "assembly" option sometimes??) and the packaging protects well against shipping damage and is all cardboard (recyclable) and plastic sheet cover. Best to have two people to lift out of the box.Expensive, yes, but well designed, comfortable, and should hold up for years and years. Only complaint is with the totally adjustable arms. Unlike all of the other settings, the arms don't lock in place after adjusting, so if you grab the arm rest to get up or move the chair, the arm rest moves. Not a big deal, but a minor annoyance.The reviews for this chair contain reviews for both new and refurb chairs. Make sure you're selecting which you want. Reviews on refurb chairs have been mixed.The price for the chair I bought changed almost daily. Pick the price point you're willing to pay and jump when it hits that point. The Honey browser extension (and others) is helpful to track price history. I'm always price sensitive, but willing to pay for a quality product, which this is. I bought one for my wife too and she's equally happy with it!

My office has had lots of Steelcase Leap chairs for years, so I am very familiar with them. Many years ago, we tested several quality office chairs, and the Leap got my vote over all the others. At the start of the pandemic, like many others, I started working from home almost exclusively. I bought a cheap $150 office chair at the time and suffered through the discomfort and back problems that came with it. More recently, I tried "upgrading" to a $300 office chair, which proved to be even worse, giving me a consistent neck ache due to poor posture that was impossible to correct.I looked at a lot of different options but kept coming back to the conclusion that anything less than a Leap would just mean a new set of problems. There are so many aspects of a chair that can go wrong -- lumbar support that is too far forward or non-adjustable, useless neck supports, uncomfortable arm supports stuck in place, hard seats, seat backs that don't come up far enough to sit straight, crappy wheels, the list goes on and I simply don't feel confident being able to judge all of those things especially while looking at chairs online given my experiences thus far. Even when I have tried to test them in-store, I have ended up with problems I didn't anticipate until I was actually using the chair over a period of time.The Leap is excellent in every respect. The cost is definitely high to pay out of your own funds for a home office, but the way I see it now, if you sit all day for your job, you can either pay the cost of that in the form of a nice office chair, or in the form of lots of visits to the doctor/physical therapist/chiropractor/etc. (been there, done that). Do yourself a favor and spend the money preventing those problems instead.

This chair should be one large sociology experiment, published and used in colleges to teach people on how easy mass psychosis can occur, and how to avoid being sucked in.I was sucked in. But then my OCD kicked in, and I realized how bad this chair is.The seat is really small. If you kick it out, there is an even larger gap in the back.The fabric felt like you were sitting in a movie theater seat. There was folding where they didnt evenly wrap the fabric under the chair.There's very little cushion. I'm not looking for soft and fluffy here, Im looking for supportive.The back is just this flimsy plastic with some fabric over probably 50 cents of foam. This is supposed to be 'by design'. Mmmkay. Give me something that I can lean to the side a bit over a flimsy back that I have to sit like a robot on all day for it to hold me.The arms are way too short. They do not go high enough.The back lumbar support is the only plus. But, even at the highest setting it didnt offer alot of 'push' there. Which I found the highest setting to be modest and nice for my liking. Unlike the Gesture which is also a Steelcase chair, the lower back support is not adjustable - and the chair is more expensive. SMH.So I thought, maybe it is just me. Let's have my friends and family test out the chair.Here are some of the most common comments:-You paid HOW much for THAT? (ok ok, to be fair I expected that even if it was the nicest chair in the world, people just dont get that sometimes you have to pay for great things).-It looks like the typical blue/black chair youd get at walmart for $49.-Wow that's really uncomfortable.-Why does it feel like im sitting on a board?-No really, how much was this chair?Dont believe me - but look at the pictures people post. A plastic base on a $1200 chair?! Wrinkled material that is haphazardly wrapped under the seat?? LOOK at the seat, it looks no different than some cheap office store chair. Sure maybe they use a bit better of a fabric or foam, but I didnt notice a difference.I really dont trust anyone that says they like this chair anymore. To me, they are easily fooled and I dont run with fools.