Making the right decision

Careful planning is essential to ensure ongoing efficiency of value for money products.

Type of office furniture required (performance specifications, functional
appropriateness plus ability to be integrated throughout the business).

With our free expert advise, we will assist in helping you make the right buying decision for your business.

New or used we can help you make the right buying decision for your business. Contact us for further details.

How Uncomfortable

I watched it the first time around from 2000-2003, as Red Productions one of Jills customers had hired all the used office furniture for the factory set. It is now being aired on ITV3 at 9pm, a long awaited re-run. Paul Abbott's acclaimed drama Clocking Off (who later brought Shameless to our screens).

Clocking Off focused around the lives of staff in a Manchester factory. A combination of colourful stories, each episode focuses on the home life of a different characther which stars the cream of Britain's acting talent. One being Siobhan Finneran (Rita, Sue and Bob Too and the TV series Benidorm), another being Phillip Glennister who plays the factory owner Mack.

Not a total reflection of real life, but it certainly comes close.

I thought I'd settle down and watch Newsnight bringing me back to reality. The programme investigated the effects of rising food prices, a rising population, growing poverty and climate change across the world and asks how better to tackle this global crisis. If you missed it you can catch it on the BBC website, labelled 'Unstainable World'. Definitely food for thought on unwanted food being disposed of every day, which to me reflects in items we buy every single day. Longevity and lifespan of a product.

I did cringe later in the programme when Jeremy Paxman was interviewing Cllr. Paul Bettison of Bracknell Forest Borough Council, as Cllr. Bettison is rather a portly gentleman and he just looked extremely uncomfortable in his chair. Jeremey looked a perfect fit in his.

Try Before You Buy

Considering purchasing a new office chair can be very difficult. How can you judge from a picture if the chair is going to be suitable for your requirements and be comfortable?

In answer - your not. Therefore Jills have teamed up with Form Seating a dynamic seating office seating manufacturer whose extensive range cover the basic operator to the most prestigious of task chairs. Manufactured in the UK to the highest level of craftsmanship with full warranty.

Firstly we assess your requirments, we focus on physical size and work tasks performed to help determine your precise needs and will then supply a particular model of chair that you can demonstrate on a free trial period. A chair that can echoe your body movements and anticipates its needs just like comfortable and expertly fitted shoes.

Interested? Then contact us for further details.

Buying a Good Office Chair Can Make a Considerable Difference

Price, rather than quality has been and is still a major issue for buyers of office chairs. The general accepted idea is that once a smart desk has been put into place - chairs appear poor in relation.

Requirements are usually on budget, some people are happy to spend £50 others will spend over £500 for that ultra-comfort feel factor.

What matters to the majority of consumers is to have a chair which is synchronised and get best value for their budget. Requirements are generally simple, flexibility and style.

Adjustability, is the first thing to check as all chairs are different, there are various mechanisms to suit all applications.

Fabric chairs absorb sweat from the body whereas mesh chairs allow the air to circulate.

Budget leather faced chairs will make your clothes shinny and can be uncomfortable. If spending a long time sat at a computer desk, you really want comfort. Fixed arms, depending on a persons height will generally not allow the user to be correctly seated.

Real leather chairs are produced using real cow hide not synthetic materials and can be expensive.

Whatever appearance or style, you get what you pay for.

Tall or short, chairs are suited to the individual operator due to weight which is a key contributary factor.

Specialist chairs can have superior gas stems and components which can be guaranteed up to 30 stone and can also be used in a 24 hour environment.

Think of your office chair as your 'daytime mattress', you probably spend as much time in there if not more than your own bed. A comfortable mattress isn't a luxury, it's a neccesity. The same should apply to your office chair.

Increase Storage Space

By using Wallspace from Officeplan, one of our many office furniture suppliers, there are imaginative ways to help utilise storage space. By simply using modular bays and a multitude of internal fittings, this makes a cost effective solution to any storage issues. Contact us for details.

Office Desk - No Walkstation!

Burn off the fat whilst you work.

The first mobile office - the 'Walkstation' is the fully integrated combination of an electric height-adjustable worksurface with an exclusively engineered, low speed commercial grade treadmill. And it’s the first product in the entirely new FitWork™ category of products from Details designed to bring healthy habits to sedentary workers while they are actually working.

A treadmill maximum 2.0mph with height adjustable work surface designed by Dr James Levine a MD and PHD in Rochester, Minnesota who has studied for the past 16 years the health effects of a sedentary work day.

Could this be the office of the future - no desks or ergonomic task chairs required?

Only available through Details a Steelcase company (USA at the moment).

Unique Design Desk

Mixing the elements of space and the future, this new innovative desk from Uffix and Pininfarina, for the most prestigious office environment. The Luna range comprises of high tech meeting tables and accessories. From the manufacturers of Ghost Crystal and Amazon ranges.