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On-line user reviews are quickly becoming the place people go to when making purchase decisions. North American Internet Users trust user reviews more than advertisements on television, on the radio, in magazines and newspapers, or in other traditional media. (Nielsen Online, April 2009)

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So…check out a couple of the reviews below, view all of them or leave your own reviews (pretty please!) by clicking the leave a review on the appropriate product page.

Leap Chair – I sit in this chair in my home office for literally hours at a time, morning to night, and when my body gets tired of one position, I just click a lever or two, turn a knob this way or that, slide, push, or shift something else, and I’ve got a new chair — or that’s how it feels, anyway. Evie from Jersey City, NJ on 12/12/2009

Walkstation – I walk 4 – 10 miles a day, when I used to be sitting. It’s great to end the day and know that i have accomplished so much exercise! I find it easy to work on my laptop and make phone calls while walking.
I also love the customizability of the Walkstation. It’s easy to set it up and get the right size and accessories for my office space. DG from Santa Fe, NM on 8/30/2009

Once in a while, it happens. The boss brought out egg nog, and now here you are – milk-based spillage all over the office’s new fabric Amia. So, what do you do? In our world, there’s really only three options:

1. Pretend like nothing happened, and leave it: Definitely the easiest, the ‘ole spill-and scam’s worked lots of times, most recently at our company Christmas party (it wasn’t us, we swear!) – but you run the risk of being outed by Mike in Accounting if he catches you in the act. Is it worth it? As long as you’ve got a great poker face. What if you got caught? Depends on if you’ve got an intern – they’ll only be around for three months any way!

2. Clean it up: A little bit harder, but if you pull it off right and people are watching, you might be able to flip the party from talking all about your clumsiness, to your superhuman Harry Houdini skills making stains disappear! You might even be able to parlay it into a cool office nickname– which we’re well aware, is super hard to do. If you’re going this route, here’s a personal tip that we use around the house: Get as much as you can off of the top with some kind of rag, then cover it with some salt, which will prevent the stain from setting. Lift the stain out of the fabric with some club soda (water could work too), and blot, blot, blot. Works like a charm for synthetic fabric! Of course, if you want to be ultra safe, try the Steelcase expert method; after all, we’re just novices.

3. Sneak the stained chair out of there and get a replacement quick!: Does the stain look huge? Do you have a clear getaway exit? Is the chair really ugly? If you answered yes to all these questions, you could pull this one off – but you’ll have to be quick! Roll the offending chair out to your car and hop on to our website to pick a new one out! Did we mention, it’s free next-day shipping on some selected chairs? The new chair will be there before you know it, and if you upgrade the recipient, depending on who’s seat it is, you might be the toast of the town! This one’s definitely our favorite decision by far (c’mon, we’re the Steelcase Store!).

Got any special moves of your own? Ever catch anyone trying to pull something? If it sounds good, we’d love to hear about it!

Think in new Connect fabric

Think. Now in new vibrant colors to brighten your workday in more ways than one. Add it all up. Innovative back support. Responsive seat flexors. Fully adjustable arms. Soft-to-the-touch mesh-like back.

Think. Comfort has never been more colorful.

On the fence? Customers love Think! See what Think users have to say.

And, as always, we offer free shipping & free returns (not that you’ll need it).

One of my favorite things around the New Year is to see the “Top 10 lists” of the previous year. What were the top news stories, songs, movies, games, etc? We at Steelcase love it the most when one of our products is featured in one of these lists.

Digital Trends ranked their top products of 2009 and one of the choices was the Steelcase Walkstation.

The Walkstation combines an electric height-adjustable worksurface with an exclusively engineered, low speed commercial grade treadmill.

Make sure your read the authors comments about his use of the Walkstation!

Surf’s up, ladies & gents. Feel free to take some time to enjoy all that the internet has to offer – at the office! Take it from us, it’s a-ok, according to a study from the University of Melbourne. Published last April, the whitepaper found that people who engage in “workplace internet leisure browsing” are actually 9% more productive than their peers that don’t.

Hold off on the day-long Facebook extravaganza, though. The study measured surf time as “a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office” – so over the course of a typical 8-hour workday, about an hour or so. Any more than that and productivity plummets – especially for the 14% of “internet addicted” workers.

The science comes from the recent prevailing wisdom of many productivity experts: your mind needs a break sometimes. Melbourne’s professors likened it to lecture halls – you’re able to concentrate for about 20 minutes before getting bored and/or tired, yet once you get a break (or get dismissed), you’ll be right back to the same energy level as you were at the start.

The research leads us to believe that it’s browsing the internet that causes the spike in productivity: you might be learning how to do tasks faster, or gaining valuable work-related knowledge perhaps, but we’re not so sure. If that’s the case, then what about the worker who goes straight to hamster on a piano?

YouTube addictions aside, we’ve got a hunch that web browsing is just a red herring. Actually, it’s the break to do something other than work for a couple of minutes that does the trick. Remember the Pomodoro technique from our post on productivity apps? It asserts the same sort of thing – 20 minutes on, 5 minutes off works wonders.

What do you think? Do you work better if you’ve got free rein to long-board all over the interwebs, or does it just distract you? What do you do during your breaks that helps you to get more done when you’re working? As always, let us know!