What does flexibility mean?
The term flexibility or the adjective flexible has its origins in the Latin language (flectere) and means something like pliable, yielding, elastic or pliability, elasticity. Flexibility is used today to describe the degree to which something can adapt to something else.
What does flexibility mean for our everyday lives?
People are expected to react flexibly to changes – both in their private and professional lives. The motto is to quickly adapt to new situations or new requirements.
Often, however, it is not just about the flexibility that should take place in the head. Ideally, our body is also flexible and can do anything. But as flexible and adaptable as the human body can be in many ways, there are natural limits. We discover these in our everyday working lives, when we have to sit at the computer for hours in the wrong position or sit uncomfortably and strenuously at a standing desk. When we perform monotonous movements such as typing or assembly line work. This actually has little to do with flexibility. Rather, the spine, intervertebral discs and muscles are subjected to strong and one-sided strain, which can lead to damage in the long term.
It helps if you have ergonomic office furniture and office chairs or if an active office makes everyday work easier because it brings movement into your everyday life.
From flexibility to the perfect office chair
Non-adjustable, inflexible armrests or backrests hinder people’s natural urge to move.
Why should people adapt flexibly to their office or workplace when there is another way? It is much easier if the workplace, desk or all the peripherals are ergonomic and can be adjusted to the user. Ergonomic office chairs and standing chairs can be individually and flexibly adjusted to the needs of the user. This means that the seat height can be continuously adjusted and the suspension can be adjusted according to the weight and mobility of the user. A backrest should, for example, have an adjustable lumbar support like the 3Dee from Aeris.
Much more important, however, is that an ergonomic office chair allows and even encourages natural movement in all directions - that is, three-dimensional movement . Only chairs that can move in three dimensions allow maximum flexibility and freedom of movement. Moving sitting equals healthy sitting. Moving sitting is active sitting and strengthens the back, stomach and leg muscles. A good chair adapts to the person sitting - and not the person sitting to the chair!
Anyone who sits on a Swopper from Aeris, for example, will experience for themselves what it is like when a chair offers exactly this flexibility. The chair, which has won multiple awards and is ergonomic in many ways, has a unique three-dimensional mobility and can therefore adapt to the person sitting on it. Despite the flexibility and movement in all directions, the upper body is always in the optimal position. So if an office chair offers the highest level of flexibility, the occupant can move accordingly flexibly, intuitively and naturally.
