It certainly is comfortable. Both the seat and the back are deeply padded and expansive; you could even, if you wanted, sit with your legs tucked under you, or partly so. The arms are connected to the chair behind you, so they don’t block your thigh should you decide to swing it over the side.

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And it certainly is adjustable. Like most office chairs, you can make this one taller or shorter when you press a lever on the chair’s stem. The chair spins easily and rolls extremely easily on its five ball-bearing feet, which, as my 8-year-old can attest, is loads of fun.

The back can recline very far — farther than any other Steelcase chair — without risk of toppling backward, which is never a good way to score points in the office. You can adjust the tension on the spring, too, so that it goes back and forward more or less easily. You can lock the back into one of five angles with the flip of a lever. All the controls are on the right side, below seat level.

By turning a knob, you can move the seat forward or backward relative to the back, to accommodate the longer or shorter of limb.

The armrests are miracles of mobility. By squeezing a lever under each one, you can move them fluidly and independently up or down, inward or outward. And in any of these positions, you can rotate the armrests.

The designers also put a lot of thought into where to end the chair’s various pieces. For example, the arms are short enough that they don’t get in the way when you want to pull up close to the table or desk. And the back doesn’t extend past your torso. It doesn’t block or restrict you when you turn to around to yell, “Hey, Frank! Do we have any C-120s in stock?”

Finally, a shout-out to whoever had the idea of wrapping the padding all the way around all four sides of the seat’s edges. Suppose, for example, that you wanted to assume a position that’s not among the Steelcase Nine. That’s entirely possible, thanks to this all-the-way-around padding; you can hang a limb over any of the seat’s edges without worrying about getting gangrene.