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: 5 minutes It’s safe to say that technological innovation has been constantly evolving for the past several years. However, no one would have been able to predict the whirlwind of digital adoption before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted industries across the globe. In CRE alone, we’re now witnessing decades of progress being achieved within a single year. Current-day …
Reading Time: 5 minutes With an increased emphasis on workplace experience taking hold of commercial real estate (CRE), the need for young talent in the workforce has become paramount to the industry’s success. In 2019, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the median age of professionals working in real estate was 48.3, and the median age …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The use of technology to bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds in a unique and interactive way for the end-user is a fairly new practice, but one that is not disappearing anytime soon. “Phygital” workplace experiences — also known as omnichannel office experiences — are growing in popularity due to the usage …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Smart technology in buildings has been one of the biggest trends in construction since 2015, and it continues to gain strong momentum as the office sector enters a new era of technological innovation. What is a smart building, you may ask? In simple terms, the smart building definition is a building integrated with advanced technologies. …
Reading Time: 4 minutes When we released our commercial real estate forecast last year, The State of TeX in 2020, none of our predictions could have anticipated the complete digital revolution that was to come. Due to the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the interest, demand, and competition for tenant experience technologies erupted at a breakneck pace. Now, …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes When our CEO Chase Garbarino announced HqO’s $34.2 million Series B funding round back in December of 2019, he stated: “It has been two years since we launched our first version of the HqO platform. At the time, we believed (and experienced first-hand in our offices of old) that commercial real estate needed to become …
Reading Time: 3 minutes There 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 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 If you know HqO, you know that enhancing physical office spaces with digital experiences is our bread and butter — we help people to love where they work. We have long stressed that creating a community in the workplace requires a tenant-first approach, and while the recent global health pandemic has changed a lot, it …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes According 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: 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: 5 minutes Benchmarking — or the process of comparing your business’ data and results with those of your industry peers to increase performance — is nothing new. We’ve seen this in a multitude of ways in the real world: sports teams and players are compared to determine top performers and predict seasonal outcomes; consumer marketing teams benchmark …
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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 — …
Reading Time: 4 minutes At Spatio Metrics, we’ve seen that workplace design has a significant impact on human health, productivity, and wellbeing. As we adapt to new ways of working and staying healthy amidst the pandemic, the role of physical office space needs to adapt as well. It has never been more important to have a thoughtful approach to …
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