How to make your office chair more comfortable (Don't lock the back rest!)

Your office chair must fulfil a few minimum requirements. Its seat should be height-adjustable and its backrest should also be adjustable and provide good support for the forward curve of your lumbar spine. — dpa

If yours is a sitting down job, then you may know the value of good quality office chair. But to avoid long-term problems, you’ll need to make sure it’s set so you can move around as much as possible.

To maximise your comfort, you need to use all possible features and degrees of freedom that your chair can offer, says Andreas Stephan, a specialist in workplace health at German accident insurer VBG.