HON H5703 Armless Office Chair - Black Fabric Task Chair for Computer Desk & Home Office

I was looking for a good quality task chair without arms and withouht spending multiple $hundreds. Most high end chairs have fancy adjustable arms that cannot be removed. This chair is unique in that arms are an optiona extra, so I can get them later if my usage situation changes.The chair does the job quite well. It is comfortable, the wheels work beautifuly; they don't get stuck at all, which is common on cheaper chairs. The seat raise/lower mechanism has a solid, well-engineered feel to it. The back support is good, and the seat-back does not wobble, as many do.CONS: Very little adjustabilty, other than seat height. The lean-back feature is pretty weak. As others noted, it is quite a lot of work and inconvenient to make the adjustment. You have to reach far under the chair and turn a big knob 30 times (I counted). For all that effort, it only goes back a few inches. Fortunately, even with it set to max lean angle, it is pretty snug for normal sitting, offering plenty of back support, which is a big plus.One other CON: This will only affect those of you who like to sit with your feet on the chair legs. There is a relatively sharp edge on front edge of the bottom of the seat the digs into your calf. Most chairs do not have this.For the money (I paid $120 in Dec 2020), its hard to beat this chair. Only four stars due to poor back adjustment design. I've only used the chair for a few days now. I don't think I'll need to send it back.1) I'll address my complaints. I'm 6'-4" and around 225. If the capacity for this chair is 250 pounds, then it SHOULD support my bony butt in comfort, but it's already too soft and I feel I'll be buying another EVERLASTING COMFORT cushion in the near future. Strike 1. 2) As another reviewer stated, my backrest is cocked to one side when viewed from the front. Luckily, I'm good at mechanical engineering, so I took the backrest back off, and fashioned a suitable 1/16" aluminum plate shim for the side that needs it, and epoxied it in place so I can re-assemble tomorrow and the shim will stay where I need it. Then the backrest will be on straight. If I didn't have the talent and materials to do this, it would have been returned like the other guy did. It was welded up improperly (Made in Taiwan). 3) Nice casters weren't advertised, but these are pretty bad- tiny plastic wheels, just under 2.00" diameter. Luckily I can pull some GOOD casters off a stool I'm not currently using, so these will improve the chair dramatically. I've bought a couple sets of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071L93MWH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1and they are fantastic and worth the money! I'm keeping the chair, and will buy an additional seat cushion as needed. It's too hard trying to find a task chair of halfway decent quality (and cushioning) for around $200.00. If you weigh 150 or less, or have a nice fatty backside then it may work for you.I bought this chair for my husband for Christmas. I knew he wanted a nicer desk chair for his office, so I was trying to find him one that would be comfortable for desk work or guitar playing (lots of guitar playing occurs in the "office," but I am not supposed to just call it a "man cave"). I hunted all over the Internet for the best chair for his needs, hoping that I could also like the look of the winning chair.I didn't want anything that looked like a futuristic chair from a Star Trek conference room. I almost went for a couple chairs that had a faux old look, like distressed leather bargain executive chairs. Some of those are fun, but I got the feeling that the quality on many of them is lacking. And it seems that leather executive chairs, bargain or not, aren't durable enough for all of the guitar playing and beer drinking that happen in this "office." Many chairs that are more stylized also don't have a tilt feature. So, after all kinds of overanalyzing, I opted for the Hon Synchro-Tilt Volt Task Chair in maroon. It's perfect in its simplicity. The base and back are well-positioned and comfortable. Swivel, tilt, and adjustment features are easy to access and work well. Hubby is thrilled with it and adds that he's glad it is armless for all of that desk work (....guitar playing). The maroon color and classic shape go well with the room and don't look bizarrely high-tech amid his office decor--a slow and steadily evolving design that includes unpacked boxes, piles of unhung wall art, old maps, tools, and random nautical paraphernalia, baskets, guitar junk, a wayward bongo drum, mismatched golf clubs, obsolete appliances, and a few actually officey things, like a file cabinet, sprinkled in just to convince a casual visitor that there could be real, hard desk work happening in here. And there could be! At least, this chair is ergonomically ready for it. Whatever he does in there, Hubby happily does it in this chair now.This is not the worst chair I used, but far from the best. It feels OK at first, and for the first few weeks it was fine.The first issue you notice is that after seating for long periods (I mean, more than 10min), the seating cusion can't hold any adult weight. When you get up, you actually hear it expand again.The second issue started after few months of partial use - sometimes the lifting mechanism will just give up and the chair starts slowly going down. you can lift back up, and if you're lucky, it will stay up.Just note, I way < 200lb - so might work better for younger children.Garbage.Box arrived opened, no tape. Luckily all the fasteners remained inside (even though turning the box over would have been enough to lose them in transport.The back and bottom of the chair have holes that do not line up. The assembly video here: [...]clearly shows pieces of different dimensions. The product I got could not be assembled in this way without shaving off plastic.Now I get to wait for the seller to "approve" of my returning their defective product. If not then it's going to the dump and I'm out $130.Buyer beware.This chair was easy to put together, easily adjustable and VERY comfortable. I removed the roller wheels as I am using the chair on a hardwood floor. Standard replacement casters (available on Amazon) fit perfectly and snapped right in. Great for a home office. Highly recommended.Being a woman, I found it very difficult to put together so my employer said to just leave it and he will sort it out. I went home and in the morning my chair was all set up and I am in love with it!! It is very comfortable, rolls well and adjusts with no problem whatsoever. Thank you!!Well, it did last a while but could have caused a severe injury. Look elsewhere.