Yes! Pro-tip: If you see an aeron chair on the side of the road for trash pickup, take it!

99% of the time, when people throw out office chairs it's because the gas cylinder failed (gets stuck down). A new cylinder is only $20!

Just be prepared to whack TF out of that old one to get it out, haha. They can be really stuck in there after 5-10 years of people sitting on the chair.

Don't be afraid to use a huge ass plumbing wrench and scratch TF out of the old one 👍

Hah! How about this: So they don't end up injuring themselves.

There's a reason why ergonomic chairs exist and why they all follow the same exact design rules (to varying degrees).

Most important features, in order of importance:

1. Adjustable arm wrests. Height is more important than swinging out/in. The out/in feature is more for convenience of getting them out of the way on occasion than anything to do with ergonomics.
2. Adjustable height. The base of which all ergonomic chairs were developed.
3. Adjustable lean. Meaning: You can control how far back it tilts.

Also important: Men and women have different ergonomic requirements! A woman's spine is curved and should not have the chair configured the same as a man.

My hospital bill for back pain so severe I couldn't even move cost way more than the cost of the chair with proper lumbar support I subsequently bought. That was caused by a cheap executive chair, not gamer chair, though.

The lifetime of the product. I bought an ergonomic chair back in 2016 and it's as good today as it was then. Any gaming chair I've bought never lasts more that 3 years. Spend €600 once or spend €150 every three years. In two more years my chair will be the same cost as having gaming chairs and in three it's cheaper. Much larger upfront cost though.

You need to get like actual decent office chairs, not Amazon trash.

They cost over thousand dollars new, but you can often get them for next to nothing when companies get new equipment.

I feel really bad for your back and body in general. There's no way you spend a lot of hours each day in a chair like that without major issues.