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    Nick Whalen, Director of Engineering

    Nick Whalen Director of Engineering at HqO As Director of Engineering, Nick leads HqO’s Platform Integration teams and the Delivery Management organization. Before joining the company, he was an Engineering Manager at ...

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    HqO: Leading the Workplace Experience Charge

    HqO is transforming how people connect with each other and the places they work. The HqO Workplace Experience Platform makes it easy for companies and commercial property teams to engage with their end users to activate ...

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    Why Landlords Should Use Workplace Events to Draw Back Tenants

    Since the onset of COVID-19, many employees don’t want to be in the office full-time. This means that the office space that is being retained by tenants is currently underutilized. In our State of Workplace Experience ...

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    Kirsty Angerer, Development Director at Leesman

    Kirsty Angerer Development Director at Leesman Kirsty Angerer is currently a Development Director at Leesman, helping to equip executives at all levels to make informed, forward-thinking decisions that allow them to ...

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    Engineering Hybrid Work Success: Exploring New Data From Leesman, an HqO Company

    Companies need access to reliable data on employee demands and preferences as they negotiate the shift to long-term hybrid work. To meet this need, HqO has partnered with Leesman, whose insights on worker sentiment have ...

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    Workplace Experience Software and Additional Revenue

    Today landlords are trying to navigate the challenges and demands of a changing workforce. The future of work is constantly in flux, which is why the adoption of hybrid work has left companies unsure of their real ...

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    Beyond Desk Booking: How to Facilitate the Return to Office

    “The latest quarterly survey of more than 10,000 knowledge workers released … by Future Forum found that only about one in three globally are actually working full-time in the office,” writes Jena McGregor in a recent ...

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    Using Technology and the Office to Engage Hybrid Workers

    Today, hybrid workplaces — that is: workplaces that blend remote and in-office work — are everywhere. HqO’s State of Workplace Experience report, for example, finds that nearly all (86%) of today’s top employers use a ...

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    Using an Employee Experience Platform to Connect the Workforce

    What seems like a lifetime ago, people used to commute to the office seven days a week for an eight-hour work day. However, things have changed — likely never returning to what it once was. This is because, since the ...

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    The HqO Difference: Making Sales Matter

    Have you ever received a sales call? Imagine: you’re sitting in your office, you’re working diligently, and then, out of the blue, your phone starts to ring. You decide to pick it up (more out of habit than anything ...

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    The Value of Community Management

    Nuveen is one of the largest investment managers in the world, with over 85 years of real estate experience and a portfolio spanning across the globe. To get a better sense of the strategies they implement to attract ...

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    Diving into the Data with a Workplace Experience Platform

    Almost every company uses data and analytics to improve their businesses. In the commercial real estate sector especially, detailed and accurate data on employee behavior and preferences can help business leaders tailor ...

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    Annmarie Anderson, Workplace Experience Manager

    Annmarie Anderson Workplace Experience Manager at HqO As a Workplace Experience Manager, Annmarie coordinates HqO’s Central Programming, which consists of all of our content available to anyone in the app, on behalf of ...

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    3 Ways to Earn Back the Tenant Commute

    Despite low occupancy and utilization rates, over half (52%) of employers still believe that companies are more likely to succeed when employees spend more time in the office. This has led to tenant companies trying to ...

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    One Tech Stack for the Hybrid Workplace

    That traditional office — one where employees commute to the office five days a week and work eight hours a day — was already on its way out even before the rise of COVID-19. The number of companies switching to a ...

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    Tom Redmayne, Managing Director at WiredScore

    Tom Redmayne Managing Director, Global Business Development at WiredScore WiredScore is the organization behind the WiredScore and SmartScore certifications for smart buildings. As Managing Director of Global Business ...

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    How OccasionGenius Connects HqO Customers with Popular Local Events

    OccasionGenius is a Virginia-based technology company that connects users with the most popular local events in their area. HqO recently sat down with Nathaniel Marcus, CEO of the company, to understand more about how ...

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    The Physical Office and Young Employees in the Workplace

    More than 40 million people left their jobs last year. This is because, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employees across the country came to the realization that they weren’t happy with their jobs. Specifically, young ...

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    Creating a Destination: How Fun and Utility Enhance Employee Experiences

    How can we make the physical workplace more enticing to hybrid employees? It’s a fair question, one that many corporate employers have been asking themselves since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The more the ...

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    Boosting Satisfaction and Productivity with In-Person Experiences

    The physical office has the potential to improve employee productivity and help companies build stronger corporate cultures. A report from researchers at the University of Chicago, for example, finds that remote ...