Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 else) and, much to your discontent, you realize that you’re talking to a sales representative. How …
Reading Time: 6 minutes 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 Development, Tom is responsible for leading WiredScore’s global go-to-market strategy. Before moving into his current position, he served as WiredScore’s Country Director for the United States, and, …
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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 they add value to the workplace experience for employers. What does OccasionGenius do for its partners and users? Can you …
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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 minutes A recent survey by Price Waterhouse Cooper found that 87% of employees think the modern office is important for collaborating with team members and building relationships. However, there are still many questions involving the office’s role in the overall workplace experience. For example, what exactly do tenants require from the office to support their needs? …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Bernard Lee Property Manager at Cousins Properties As a Property Manager at Cousins Properties, Bernard is in charge of the maintenance and operations of the Terminus buildings located in Atlanta, GA. Bernard uses his over 13 years of commercial real estate experience to make sure key objectives and deadlines are met and ensure the success …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Put simply, visitor management is any process that an organization uses to keep track of who enters and exits their property. Until now, manual visitor registration methods such as visitor badges and physical logs were the only options for office buildings. However, the increased use of technology in the commercial real estate (CRE) industry has …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Post-pandemic social distancing protocols kicked off the use of touchless technology across every industry. Of these, commercial real estate (CRE) arguably went through the largest transformation. And contactless solutions are here to stay: MarketsandMarkets projects that the touchless sensing market will reach $15.3 billion in 2025, a staggering increase from $6.8 billion in 2020. Modern …
Reading Time: 6 minutes Spurti Kanekar Head of Legal at HqO As the Head of Legal at HqO, Spurti supports all functions across the company for legal and general advice. She applies her previous expertise in technology, data privacy, and global expansions to the commercial real estate (CRE) industry, which she finds to be an enriching and invigorating experience. …
Reading Time: 5 minutes Gillian Vesely Customer Success Representative at HqO As a Customer Success team member at HqO, Gillian works with Engagement Specialists and Success Managers to ensure customers achieve their tenant experience goals. She loves addressing client challenges, whether it’s executing on a property team’s day-to-day strategies or coming up with custom technology offerings for unique use-cases. …
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s no secret that commercial real estate data and trends have been evolving at a breakneck pace. In our commercial real estate outlook 2020, commercial property data was just beginning to indicate a wave of unprecedented change for the market. The more the workforce was forced out of the public realm due to global events, …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today’s commercial real estate landscape is more complex than ever. Tenant and office building needs have evolved – and are continuing to evolve – at a dizzying rate. The flexibility offered by hybrid work models, which gained mass popularity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to become a permanent fixture of how modern companies …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s no secret that building design has come a long way. Though what we currently think of when we envision a smart building — a fully tech-enabled, supercomputer of the future — has only been around since the start of the 21st century, one could argue that concepts for building automation dated back to as …
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘Twas December 10th, 2019, and all came together from the HqO team. They gathered in office with holiday cheer, and excitedly received their new HqO gear. After the gifts the awards show occurred, then later that night the annual party emerged. We ate and we drank, we had sushi with soy. We hugged and shook …
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Reading Time: 6 minutes With all the changes that the commercial real estate (CRE) industry has seen this past year, we know that the best way to stay informed and to get ahead is through data collection. However, not all data is good data, and access to bad data — which may include vanity metrics and/or non-actionable data — …