I bought this chair when it became clear I would be in the home office for months to come. It is an excellent option if you get it on sale and have a coupon from the rewards program. This chair swivels and leans back. The seat padding is not as good as the expensive chair doing nothing at the office but it is pretty firm. The mesh back supports the back fairly well but also not quite as firm as the office chair. There are only two adjustments available the height and the resistance to leaning back. I was concerned that I could not get the chair seat high enough but it does go just as high as the expensive chairs in the office. It might not go high enough for people over six feet or have long legs. The armrests do not adjust but the channels where you attach them to the seat are about half an inch wide so you can set them a little narrower or wider. They are not padded but every office chair I ever had with vinyl and padding on the armrests has eventually cracked and torn anyway.