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biodegradable office furniture should be more of a thing. open source furniture design for an office and having staff contribute to building it could influence
by motohagiography 2y ago
biodegradable office furniture should be more of a thing. open source furniture design for an office and having staff contribute to building it could influence the culture in a positive way.
- ponector 2y agoYou can always opt out for a simple wooden chair instead of aeron. Just plain wood, no plastic, no fabric.
- SoftTalker 2y agoMy home office chair is what might be called a "jury chair." Simple wood armchair, similar to these: https://www.kpetersen.com/jurychairs.htm https://www.kpetersen.com/jurychairs.htm Solid, easy to clean, nothing really to break or wear out or fail, and reminds you to get up and walk around every so often :)
- myfavoritetings 2y agoI encourage you to try sitting in a wooden chair for 8 hours a day every day and reconsider
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoUp until say 70 years ago, wooden chairs were probably the norm everywhere.
- gampleman 2y agoI do! I genuinely find it much more comfortable than any office chair I ever had.
- ghaff 2y agoI do have an Aeron in my office. But since I largely stopped having video calls I confess I mostly work at my kitchen/dining room table in a wooden chair.
- PhilipRoman 2y agoI use a wooden chair for my home office and I find it more comfortable than office chairs, although it may not be a fair comparison since I spend most of the time squatting on it.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoHave you forgotten what primary and secondary school was like?
- stemlord 2y ago> having staff contribute to building it could influence the culture in a positive way I hate this idea. That is not my job
- motohagiography 2y agoas mentioned, it could influence the culture in a positive way.
- abeppu 2y agoI think making your tech company staff make furniture is about as sensible as if the people who make furniture were also building their own software. But as to open source furniture design ... I thought furniture was basically in the same position as fashion, where you can protect trademarks etc and particular patentable innovations, but that designs in general are not protected.
- RyanHamilton 2y agoTell that to Bezos https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nB25pTM7Ytw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nB25pTM7Ytw
- WalterBright 2y agoI worked briefly for a startup. The new guys all were handed parts and were expected to build their own computer. It was fun.
- cancerhacker 2y agoHah, reminds me of 1990 Sun where I was handed several boxes of parts and told to make a sun4 VME workstation and bootstrap it from tape. I think it was part hazing, part can this person ask for help when they get stuck and partly where is our documentation lacking. (Sun had excellent docs at the end)
- rsynnott 2y ago> open source furniture design for an office and having staff contribute to building it could influence the culture in a positive way. Found Ron Swanson's hackernews account.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoAt the expense of your insurance premiums and general staff whininess.