About us and our ergonomic posture paradise
In 2002 we had a dream of ridding the UK of poor office furniture and aching backs. We worked, and continue to work, hard to supply the very best and ergonomic accessories and furniture that the world has to offer.
From one comfortable bottom to hundreds of comfortable bottoms! Starting as a humble front room business, and with a few bumps along the way, Posture People continues to grow and now our current home is a 900 square foot showroom in the beautiful Sevendials area of Brighton.
Not content with delivering the very best in ergonomic accessories and furniture we have listened to our clients. They demanded that we widen our portfolio to encompass visitor’s chairs, soft seating, boardroom furniture (we’ve even got an electric height adjustable boardroom table) and conference chairs that can actually be sat on for a whole day without delegates wanting to walk out. Ever eager to please you we now offer all this.
We’ve always tried to be a bit different from the run of the mill office furniture companies and we truly believe that ergonomics are the foundation to a successful company. The people in any company are the most expensive asset, so why disadvantage them by sitting them too high or too low and on bottom numbing chairs?
We are expert ergonomic consultants dedicated to creating perfect ergonomic workplace
We think that personal service is important. We believe that if you want to buy office furniture you should to talk to an expert rather than a guy armed with a catalogue. It doesn’t matter if you buy one chair or a thousand; we pride ourselves on delivering the very best ergonomic workplace solutions.
Proof is in the pudding and a recent survey has found that 85% of our customers are completely satisfied and the rest are satisfied with our service. View our case studies for more details.
Meet our management team:
David Blood
About David: David is a self-confessed “part-time comedian, part-time chair geek”. As well as making people laugh, there is not much David doesn’t know about ergonomic furniture. A veteran of 12 years “there’s not many issues I haven’t seen before, although there was that guy who came into our showroom looking for a haircut?”
What David does: It’s quite hard to sum up what we do, as that really depends on the customer. We work with a lot of companies advising them on the best chairs for their whole department or office, or organising a refurbishment project for them. A lot of our customers are looking how to maximise their space at the moment rather than move, so we have worked with a number of clients on improving how their offices are laid out. On another day I can be helping just one person improve their workstation. The variety of the job is what I’ve always loved; no one day is the same and it’s fantastic to feel that you’ve really made a difference to someone’s working day.”
David likes: “I like chairs, it’s a bit odd but I actually find myself watching television and looking to see what chairs they are on. Did you know that the last series of 24 they were sitting on Herman Miller chairs, and now they’ve swapped to Humanscale ones – see I really do pay attention.
What makes a good office: it’s undoubtedly the people, you’ve got to have some personality around you, good people will great that buzz, that vibe and if you get a good team around you then you are half way to succeeding.
Favourite product: I really like the Axia Pro office chair, feels a bit like someone’s hugging you when you are sitting down, and it’s really difficult to slouch in it, great for everyone’s posture.
Jo Blood
About Jo: Jo joined David in 2003 “and I’ve never looked back, I came on board to manage the day to day running of the Company and to whip the marketing into shape. Although I’d been involved in marketing for years, it’s been great to get more involved in setting up the procedures and policies that have shaped our Company, and the best bit is that it doesn’t really feel like work.“
What Jo does: We have a busy showroom in Brighton, which I run, so I see a lot of people who have home offices and want to improve their set up. It’s so often that people who are freelance or running their business at home, ignore the warning signs and are used to sitting on kitchen chairs at their dining table. Those are the people I like to help the best, as they don’t have the support structure of a big Company around them, and our products can help them to continue what they are really good at. Over the years, we’ve helped writers, photographers, video editiors, garden designers, I even had a lady in who’d been a principle dancer at the Royal Ballet and she’s now in her 80’s. The range of people you meet is one of the best bits of the job.
I’m also responsible for all the marketing, admin and strategy so you could say I’m kept busy.
Jo’s likes: I’ve set myself the challenge of learning to ballroom dance, I’ve always wanted to be able to do it properly (I’ve watched too many series of Strictly Come Dancing). Thankfully each week I’m looking less like a baby elephant and more like a swan. I’ve always wanted to run a marathon too, but I think that’s next years challenge.
What makes a good office: Lack of politics, it never really does any good, and the office is a much nicer place without it.
Favourite product: “The Ergo-doc, I’m quite a messy person and this free up space on my desk and saves my neck twisting at the same time”
Jim Powell
About Jim: I started my sales career in media events, working on B2B award programmes for a London company called Quest Media. I worked on events such as The National Sales Awards, National Customer Service Awards and National Business Awards, at first as an account manager generating entries, and then later on as sponsorship manager. In moved to Brighton and into telecoms and worked for a lead generation company as business development manager for just over a year, before leaving to join Posture People as their Business Development Manager.
What Jim does: My time is split between account management and business development – I work with existing clients to help with their ongoing requirements, whether that involves performing workstation assessments on members of staff, delivering ergonomic furniture or simply offering advice on best practice. I work with new clients to help identify how we can work with internal occupational health advisors and health & safety staff to ensure that all employees are working at a comfortable and healthy workstation, reducing absenteeism and improving productivity.
Jim likes: Outside of work I’m a huge movie fan (and often spend more time than I should discussing movie greats with Dave), I’m also a big console gamer and thoroughly enjoy a jolly good shoot ‘em up on my Xbox. I love cars, which is ironic seeing as I spend most of my time walking. I love to cook great food, and my most proud cookery moment was creating a giant scotch egg using and ostrich egg and about 4lbs of sausage meat. I’m currently studying Ninjitsu, a traditional Japanese martial art, and where I can I try to stay relatively fit. That said, I drink like a fish and smoke like a chimney so although my body is a temple, it unfortunately lies in ruin!
What makes a good office: An open and relaxed environment, there’s no point in working somewhere too stuffy, you need to be able to have a bit of banter flying around the office.
Favourite product: I love the Reflex Chair by Girsberger, I’ve adopted mine at the office and I pine when it’s away on customer trials.
Resource Centre
- I would not hesitate to recommend them to any company & am happy to think that our working relationship is one of the most pleasant & professional that I have. “
Sally Taylor, Facilities Administrator, Novo Nordisk Ltd