Allison interviews Violet Chen, founder and CEO of TopJob, about two of their ergonomic chairs: the Napa and the BOBA.
The Napa is an elegant chair that is available in multiple colors and two fabrics: vegan leather and bouclé. It has ergonomically designed armrests, footrests, and a headrest. The footrest is sturdy, retractable, and repositionable to support movement and multiple seating positions.
The BOBA is an active stool that combines style and functionality and is available in multiple colors. It is an ideal companion for a standing desk and a playful addition to a game room. It has an adjustable height from 19” to 25” and supports a 50-degree sway range and a 360-degree rotation.
Learn more at https://topjob.co/
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Transcript of Interview:
Allison: I saw these crazy-looking chairs here from a company called Top Job and I’m talking to Violet Chen who’s gonna tell us all about it because she’s the founder of Top Job. Sitting in a chair right now and I haven’t got to do the full experience yet but you’re gonna tell us about it.
Violet Chen: Right, so the design of our this chair is called Napa. The design of behind this chair is first of all it’s it’s elegant and beautiful. Most of us who work from home a lot of times you’re you might be working in your living room and you don’t want a very intrusive black office chair in your living room so the color of this chair is amber and the second of all when you’re sitting a long time at home you actually we believe ergonomics is about movement and changing positions.
Allison: I am all over that — I like to sit with my legs crossed in my chair.
Violet Chen: So with the retractable footrest it’s designed to be very sturdy so you can try the cross-leg position.
Allison: Oh my goodness that is I’ve been wanting to cross my legs all day this is fabulous. It’s so good.
Violet Chen: And then you move it a bit longer now you’re in the huddle position.
Allison: The huddle?
Violet Chen: Yeah we call it the huddle position so it’s kind of like you’re holding yourself but you’re really the huddle position also helps to stretch your lower back.
Allison: Right I can feel the the stress. So I’ve been standing and walking all day and this feels fantastic on my back.
Violet Chen: Oh that’s awesome.
Allison: Just having my feet up some I’m always looking for a footrest but I’m still in a really nice kind of modern-looking chair.
Violet Chen: Right, right.
Allison: Can I recline here?
Violet Chen: Yes please please. I think after a whole long day of hard work at CES we all deserve to recline a little bit and connect with ourselves.
Allison: I’m in heaven here people. I’m just reclining back and now I’m not going to work in this position but I might I might watch TV or something like that and take this off but I can still sit up and you’ve got the armrests you said are adjustable up and down. So now you have some other kinds of what is this chair called again?
Violet Chen: It’s called Napa. It’s called Napa ergonomic chair.
Allison: Very nice. Oh man, I’m in love with this chair so I’m gonna I’m gonna step out of it though because there are some things here that I’m gonna describe as really colorful mushrooms but they’re they’re cylindrical things.
Violet Chen: Why don’t you sit in one as well?
Allison: Oh yeah. Okay so I’m gonna I’m gonna get in the green one lime green and she’s in the flaming orange. Let me rotate this around so I can do this correctly. All right. Oh off to the side. So are you gonna sit I want you to sit with me.
Allison: So we’re sitting on this and it’s it’s flexible. So we’re we’re both sitting here looking like silly people but that’s okay. We’re we’re just kind of wiggling our spines and that feels kind of like a back massage to do that.
Violet Chen: Yeah I think once again that’s our Bolivian ergonomics is is about movement and this chair encouraged micro-movements throughout. So you can move to exercise your core but also you can move to reflect your back and I think through that movement fatigue is nowhere to be found.
Allison: That’s a good description because I mean I don’t feel like I’m doing an ab workout but because I’m allowing myself to move I’m probably doing a little bit of one and I’m not sitting in that one position. I’m terrible about that. Now you told me that something fun happens if I pull on this tab.
Violet Chen: Yeah try it.
Allison: Yeah it went down and now it perhaps works on your different type of muscle.
Violet Chen: That’s so good for a child.
Allison: Yeah so I just went down quite maybe six-eight inches and now I am I can feel it’s just working a different part of my back. It’s very comfortable but I can keep moving this and that movement is amazing. I’ve never seen anything like this.
Violet Chen: I’m glad you like it. I’m glad you like it. I think it’s so important to get into the habit of moving. We also call it the love handle killer. A lot of us needed that after the new year.
Allison: Absolutely absolutely. So what is this chair called?
Violet Chen: It’s called chair Boba. So Boba is this bouncy thing that you add to your milk tea. It’s also Asian. It’s sort of like an Asian snack and we think that this chair is bubbly and bouncy so we call it Boba chair.
Allison: That is perfect. Now where could we find the top job? Let’s see it was Napa and the boba chair.
Violet Chen: So our website is topjob.co. All the products are available on our website currently at a special discount at CES. So the Boba chair is $150 and Napa is $350. So we believe a fair price is important too.
Allison: That looks very good. These are fun. They’re colorful and man I feel better. I should have stopped by here sooner. Thank you very much.
** Violet Chen:** You’re welcome Allison. Thank you.
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