My plan is to use this chair as an everyday desk chair so Im hoping the seat softens up a little bit over time. Its very firm, which is fine, but at the moment it does feel a little uncomfortable after an hour plus of sitting on it. The chair looks great and was packaged very well and very easy to assemble so no complaints there. Whats VERY important to know about this chair is that by default it is slightly reclined without an easy adjustment. It was too reclined to use as a desk chair for work. BUT if you flip it over youll notice that there are 2 black plastic spacers that you can remove with a little help from an Allen key. By removing these it made the seat noticably flatter and much better for working.