Office chairs are often not adjusted by end-users

Office chairs are often not adjusted by end-users

Vink, P.
Porcar-Seder, R.
de Pozo, Á.P.
Krause, F.

2007

To find out how many office workers adjust their chairs, 350 office workers in Spain and the Netherlands are observed and questioned on whether they adjust their chairs. It appears that 24% of 236 Spanish office workers and 61% of 100 Dutch subjects never adjust their chair. If the chair is adjusted, it concerns mostly the seat height. Except for the seat height, other adjustment possibilities are not used by the majority of the study population. Reasons for not adapting could be awareness, complexity of the control system and expected effects.

Workplace
Control systems
Human engineering
Office buildings
Expected effects
Netherlands
Office workers
Spanishs
Ergonomics

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f4bf0bcd-a243-4ea9-be7d-e846cc7636a3

240505

9781605600376

1071-1813

51st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2007, 1-5 October 2007, Baltimore, MD, USA, Conference code: 75031, 2, 1015-1019

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

conference paper