Let’s start by taking a look at ergonomic designs for smaller people.

If you call up and say you’re under 5′4″, we have a few options we can direct you toward.  First up, we’d recommend you take a look at the chairs in our “petite” section.  These chairs are specially designed with small people in mind — they tend to be lower to the ground, and built on a smaller, narrower frame as well.  

This is great if you have a fair amount of flexibility in your workplace, but one thing you want to avoid is getting a chair so low that you have to reach up to use your keyboard or pick up your phone — that’s definitely bad ergonomics.  Rather than do that, you might want to stick with a regular height chair, and supplement it with a foot rest that will keep your feet from dangling in the air (which is very bad form).

Tomorrow, we’ll look at a third option for smaller-sitters — “specialty” chairs.