Steelcase Leap Office Chair - Seven Points of Adjustability - Ergonomic Back Support Chair - Lumbar Support - 4D Adjustable Arms - Black Frame - Onyx

P Fok United States

A very well-designed, high quality chair.

As soon as I sat on this chair, I knew it was "the one". Love at first sight but for a piece of furniture :) The first thing I noticed about it was that it's actually smaller than a lot of the "executive" high-back chairs I've sat on. Those were very uncomfortable, and not designed for people of my size (I'm 5 ft 8, 140 lbs). Here are the most important design features for me: 1) The seat is depth-adjustable. I have relatively short thighs. I like that I can adjust the seat so that my back is nestled against the seat back and my legs still fall off the seat front at a right angle. 2) The arms are adjustable and yet not too loose: I thought this would not be a big deal, but this is turning out to be one of my favorite features. The arms can be lowered so you can pull the chair right up under the desk allowing you to get closer to your computer, if you want. They can be raised if you need support for your elbows. My old chair had arm rests that were far too wide basically making them useless. 3) There is a bewildering array of levers to adjust the chair and I thought this would be intimidating. However, every knob and lever is actually labeled so you know exactly what it does. Within a few minutes I knew how to adjust my chair. 4) I don't like mesh back chairs so I chose the Steelcase Leap over chairs like the Aeron. If you are spending an absurd amount of time in front of a computer because of working from home, do yourself a favor and buy a decent chair. Your body will thank you for it. The Steelcase Leap is expensive (when new, it's over $900) but I bought mine used and refurbished from TE Seating, at Amazon Marketplace. They delivered the chair within a week, fully assembled. It comes in a large box and it's very heavy so bear that in mind - you may need someone to help you bring it inside.

Pacific Northwest User United States

It's not immediately comfortable, but I couldn't imagine sitting in anything else

Been using for several months now. I initially sat down and thought I made a huge mistake, it's not like sitting on a comfy chair. I knew the return window would allow to to send back figured I'd sit in it for a few days. I'm 6'1 170lbs, WFH, roughly 9-10 hours a day spent in the chair. Initial impression was that my lower back didn't like the lumbar support at all, took it out (30 seconds total to remove) and noticed relief right away but it still didn't feel great after the first day, my entire body actually hurt. I was researching how to send it back from the couch that evening. Played with the settings and after the second day I still didn't like it at all. The third or 4th day I noticed my posture had started to improve due to the arm rests adjustability giving you many different seating options. I'd never used a recline function in any chair so I immediately shut it off. Decided to try it out and couldn't believe how great the ability to sit upright firm with stability so it doesn't fall back, then slightly recline if needed, I now use it all day without thinking about it. By the end of the first week I started breaking the box it came in down because there was no way I could ever see myself sitting in any other chair. I'm amazed at what this has done for my overall comfort even life outside of the chair. This was easily the best purchase I can recall making. I just wish I had done it sooner. The build quality is what you would expect when you're paying a lot. There's not a ton of padding (seems to be most higher end chairs), but it's an incredibly comfortable chair once you get used to it. I expect this chair to last a very long time, however, if I ever get wind they're discontinuing this chair or redesigning it, I'll be buying a backup V2 for sure.

Ben D United States

The best office chair

My office has had lots of Steelcase Leap chairs for years, so I am very familiar with them. Many years ago, we tested several quality office chairs, and the Leap got my vote over all the others. At the start of the pandemic, like many others, I started working from home almost exclusively. I bought a cheap $150 office chair at the time and suffered through the discomfort and back problems that came with it. More recently, I tried "upgrading" to a $300 office chair, which proved to be even worse, giving me a consistent neck ache due to poor posture that was impossible to correct. I looked at a lot of different options but kept coming back to the conclusion that anything less than a Leap would just mean a new set of problems. There are so many aspects of a chair that can go wrong -- lumbar support that is too far forward or non-adjustable, useless neck supports, uncomfortable arm supports stuck in place, hard seats, seat backs that don't come up far enough to sit straight, crappy wheels, the list goes on and I simply don't feel confident being able to judge all of those things especially while looking at chairs online given my experiences thus far. Even when I have tried to test them in-store, I have ended up with problems I didn't anticipate until I was actually using the chair over a period of time. The Leap is excellent in every respect. The cost is definitely high to pay out of your own funds for a home office, but the way I see it now, if you sit all day for your job, you can either pay the cost of that in the form of a nice office chair, or in the form of lots of visits to the doctor/physical therapist/chiropractor/etc. (been there, done that). Do yourself a favor and spend the money preventing those problems instead.

JessJane United States

Update Re: Previous Review of "Very High Quality, Comfortable Chair"

1/14/2021 Update: I've had this chair now for several months. In the beginning it was not comfortable but that changed. For all the sitting I do while working at home I do not have back issues. I like the ability to recline to stretch out my back throughout the day. Overall I am satisfied with this purchase. 9/30 Update: In hindsight I probably would not spend the money to purchase this chair. I was fortunate that my employer subsidized the cost. I do still have back pain, not as much as the previous chair but it's still there. Based on online reviews of this chair on the Internet I would have thought this would be the most comfortable chair I could sit in but it is not and for the money I would expect that it would be. Original review: I decided to spend the additional funds to purchase this chair because I did not have a positive experience with lower priced office chairs. Based on my research I discovered that this is one of the top office chairs on the market. It has lived up to its reputation. It came assembled which was great because I didn't have to worry about not screws that did not fit properly into their holes. I'm very pleased and it's worth it now that I am working at home and require a very high quality chair....my back is worth it!!