Not exactly a lifehack but I swapped out the plastic casters on my desk chair with a set of polyurethane wheels. Even many high end office chairs come with low

Not exactly a lifehack but I swapped out the plastic casters on my desk chair with a set of polyurethane wheels. Even many high end office chairs come with low quality casters. Replacing them with a nice polyurethane set makes those hundreds of small shifts in body weight we do in the chair each day unnoticeable. And when you need to move more than that, it's completely effortless. No dragging at all.