09/02/2026
A cheap office chair is not cheaper. It is financed.
Run it out. A $150 chair under real office use gets replaced about every two years. Over ten years that is five chairs, roughly $750, plus the shipping and the afternoons spent assembling each one.
A commercial task chair starts around $299 here, is built for a forty-hour week, and is warranted in years. One chair, same ten years.
Now multiply either number by your headcount and the gap stops being a rounding error.
And that is only the money. It does not count the back pain, or the person who stopped staying past four because sitting hurts.
We will run the comparison with you using your actual headcount. Takes about ten minutes.
Save this for budget season.