Reading Time: 5 minutesAs a Senior Graphic Designer at HqO, I know that design is integral to the workplace experience. I also know that many people don’t understand the important role that design plays in the workplace. And why would they? Good design is meant to be seamless. When it succeeds, it becomes invisible to employees by integrating …
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Reading Time: 5 minutesB. Joseph Pine II Best-selling author, speaker, and management advisor B. Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. He is a Co-Founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to …
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo, what is workplace experience? It’s a term that has become increasingly common, but it can take on many different meanings depending on the company. In order to understand the benefits of improving the workplace experience, it’s important to first have a clear understanding of both the term and its importance for employers. Simply put, …
Reading Time: 6 minutes“Read this one, mama,” my three-year-old daughter said, as she handed me her favorite bedtime book: What Do People Do All Day, by Richard Scarry. The book, which has been a classic since I was a child, is an illustration of a fictional town’s animal citizens at work. Through the use of detailed diagrams, it …
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Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a world defined by constant change and elevated levels of economic uncertainty, commercial real estate (CRE) companies and property teams have increasingly recognized the need to gather more information on tenant needs and behaviors. HqO’s State of Workplace Experience report finds, for example, that a majority of landlords now think that data on tenant …
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce upon a time, workplace technology was looked at as a supporting tool that tenants and employees used, on occasion, to help them do their jobs. Now, the importance of tech has been brought to the forefront of the modern work environment. Landlords and property teams, alongside employers, are realizing that their traditional systems no …
Reading Time: 3 minutesAccording to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the commercial real estate (CRE) space has now entered a period of what it calls “certain uncertainty,” which is driven by higher-than-healthy inflation, a chaotic labor market, and generally elevated levels of economic uncertainty. Moreover, in the face of endemic COVID-19, landlords and others in the CRE …
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Reading Time: 3 minutesTo support the new hybrid work model, commercial real estate (CRE) firms and business leaders have aligned on a shared goal to improve employee experiences in and out of the office. To do so, they are adopting return to office apps (like the HqO Workplace Experience Platform) to improve experiences for everyone who spends time …
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Reading Time: 4 minutesCommercial real estate (CRE) data has spoken: when considering what to do with your office space this year, you need to put your tenants at the very center of your workplace planning strategies. In a recent CBS News article, Megan Cerullo discusses the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic on office buildings and the tenant companies …
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe traditional 9-to-5 routine is no more. Almost all aspects of work have evolved in the last few years, from easier employee commutes to hybrid workplace communities cultivated at office buildings. With many employees able to work from home, the employers who want to continue with “business as usual” have been losing talent at alarming …
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’ve been keeping up with the commercial real estate (CRE) market, you know that 2021 was a formative period of growth, consolidation, and significant proptech funding. Industry leaders faced an array of new challenges, including how to add value to their building’s tenant engagement strategy in ways that support every person who spends time …
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’re back in the office, but things have changed. How can you give your employees what they need, want, and expect? How can you create a truly “happy” office? The click of fingers against keyboards. The smell of fresh coffee. Voices – whispers, laughs, shouts – from meeting rooms, cubicles, canteens. For more than a …
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat do tenants want in the new year? With a constantly changing workplace experience, keeping tenants and employees engaged poses a challenge for landlords and property teams in the commercial real estate (CRE) business. Today, we’re going to look at how workplace experience software can help address these changing demands. Commercial Observer recently sat down …
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Reading Time: 4 minutesHqO’s purpose, as our CEO and Co-Founder Chase Garbarino shared last April, is building technology to create real-world experiences that lead to more meaningful connections. As we look back at 2021, we’re proud to share that we’ve done just that. We’ve made sure to stay true to our values throughout the year, despite our massive …