WORKING YOURSELF TO DEATH? HERE’S THE PERFECT CHAIR FOR YOU

Sun 25 September 2022:

For those who spend a lot of time at their computers, a UK-based designer created a line of coffin-shaped office chairs called “final shift office chairs.”

The chair is made to look like a coffin and was influenced by coffin designs. The Chairbox creator claimed that a study found that spending six to eight hours a day sitting increased the risk of dying, though one wonders how it might perform with lumbar support.

By design, people weren’t made to sit still for eight hours a day. According to Chairbox’s website, our bodies are still adjusting to the full behavioral change.

“Exercising is still insufficient, even then. Additionally, legislation in the UK requires employers to offer standing desk solutions in their workplaces. Although there is awareness, it is insufficient.”

Nevertheless, he continued, “The whole grind culture is just wrong, it feels to me like voluntary slavery,” as he spoke about propagating the “grind culture” idea. “We’ve been gaslit into thinking that this is life as it supposes to be. We sit in those coffins and generate value for the stakeholders, but once the time has come they nail the lid and roll us to the corporate cemetery,” he added.

When asked when the inspiration struck, Chairbox told Designboom that it did so as he was sitting on the couch with his legs propped up on the floor in his friend’s living room. He jokingly said, “I thought that if I die in this pose, they might have to bury me like that. It would be so inconvenient to put me in a coffin. They probably would need a special coffin in this case.”

“I told my friend about it, and we laughed, but after a couple of weeks, I returned to that idea and explored it a bit more. Later, I made a 3D model in CAD software, rendered it, and posted online,” he added.

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