Reading Time: 6 minutesAnna Kassaraba Senior Software Engineer at HqO Anna is a Senior Software Engineer at HqO, reporting to the Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) teams. She is a front-end engineer focusing on mobile development, and is currently working on HqO’s Platform team to perfect the company’s mobile access features. You’ve been part of our Engineering team …
Reading Time: 2 minutesMichael Bull’s real estate career started when he was just eighteen years old. Today, he owns his own real estate firm Bull Realty and hosts the country’s leading video and podcast show on commercial real estate (CRE), America’s Commercial Real Estate Show. What started as a radio show over a decade ago is now a podcast, …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Return to office plans are still up in the air for some landlords as the delta variant poses new health and safety challenges for the workplace. The U.K. is no exception: as of August 20th, fewer than one in five workers have returned to the physical workplace. In order to combat this uncertainty, we’ve …
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe dynamics of the employer-employee relationship have profoundly changed in what we all hope are the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Until March 2020, employers commonly set the work rules that determine the parameters of when employees worked, how they worked, and where they worked. While employers will continue to define how to best …
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn recent years, the tenant experience (TeX) space has been flooded with new software providers and offerings, often making it difficult to identify the best property management app from the rest. However, the pandemic has drastically changed where, when, and how people work, and commercial office owners must now take a hybrid approach to the workplace …
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is something undeniably electric about Opening Day. The beginning of a new season brings with it a renewed spirit of hope, alongside a fresh, unbridled enthusiasm born of the promise of new possibilities, shared by every fan who flocks back to the stadium. With the long, dormant off-season finally over, months of pent-up energy …
Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to USA Today, an estimated 1 million people attend one of the dozens of events that are held in the host city during the week leading up to Super Bowl Sunday. To meet the needs of this diverse horde requires a staff of approximately 14,000 people — an army of security and guest services …
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy boss walked into my office, as he so often did, after navigating the long, narrow rows of desks and file cabinets that comprised the spine of our department high above the auditorium at Radio City Music Hall. His gaze was set in a far-away fog of intense frustration. We had been awarded the contract …
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Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the same ways Apple redefined the tech industry, the current landscape of commercial real estate (CRE) is changing due to the new technology innovations introduced during the new normal. Over 44 years ago, two college drop-outs decided to found a company out of a small garage in Cupertino, California. The students wanted to revolutionize …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe introduction of a “new normal” – a wholesale change in how we navigate through our daily lives and how industries alter the way they conduct business – is just not that exceptional. In fact, the emergence of a new normal from time to time is, well, pretty normal. Sometimes, the new normal is a …
Frank Talks CRE: Managing ‘New’ Normals Is Not So New Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring the height of the cold war, Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union’s Air Defense Forces, and his job was to monitor the Soviet satellite system responsible for detecting nuclear missile launches from the United States. On September 26th, 1983 — just a few weeks after the Soviet Union had shot …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI was working on the 46th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper on August 14, 2003, when the lights went out across most of the U.S. and Canadian east coast. Within a half hour, it became clear that the power would not be restored anytime soon. With evening approaching, there was no sense of panic, only …
Frank Talks CRE: The Crucial Importance of Building Communities Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesNo two ways about it, the competitive environment has changed. An imposing new contender has swiftly entered the arena with swagger and clout that was unimaginable just a few short months ago. The challenger – remote working – is hardly new to the game. But when the pandemic began, the robust meeting solution technologies that …
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Reading Time: 4 minutesMany people are reluctant to return to their offices. For some it’s fear and for others it’s the flexibility of working from home. One thing is certain, though: people will return and when they do, it will be a different environment than the one they left. The expectations for an office experience are changing and …
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Reading Time: 3 minutesYour portfolio and your customers need more than an app: they need a comprehensive operating system that weaves all of your commercial office building technology and data together in one platform. Thursday, HqO Chief Technology Officer Dr. Jim Butler and Chief Revenue Officer Mark Rosenthal conducted a live webinar discussing HqOS technology, and how it …
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