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Employee Experience Platforms and ‘Collaborative Equity’ | HqO

Employee Experience Platforms and ‘Collaborative Equity’

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the last few years, the state of the workplace has drastically changed and employers are prioritizing hybrid workplace environments. Since COVID-19 has upended how corporate leaders interact with their employees and how coworkers connect with each other, keeping employees engaged with their workplace has massively grown in importance. Employees are more selective than ever …

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The Office as a Magnet | HqO

The Office as a Magnet

Reading Time: 4 minutes In September 2021, leading commercial real estate firm CBRE released a study on the global trends shaping the future of the office. “Consolidation,” the report reads, “remains a focus for many multinationals. In EMEA, 40% of companies expect their portfolios to contract over the next three years, compared with a third who anticipate expansion. In …

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Property Management Software and the “Experience War”

Reading Time: 3 minutes The future of the workplace is changing. As we move forward into the contemporary workplace, office environments must be positioned to provide best-in-class employee experiences. This is because the physical workplace has become an important part of an employee’s work day, even among a hybrid workforce. Business leaders are now catering to the happiness of …

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Flexible Workplaces are Driving the Return to Office | HqO

Flexible Workplaces are Driving the Return to Office

Reading Time: 2 minutes The results are in: workplaces that can’t embrace a flexible work environment are witnessing declines in important experiences that promote a healthy work-life balance and employee satisfaction. According to a recent Insight Publishing article, Future Forum has released new insights and findings that are impacting the workplace experience (wx) for many employers and employees: “More …

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Happy Office: Bridging the Executive-Employee Disconnect | HqO

Bringing Them Back: Bridging the ‘Executive-Employee’ Disconnect

Reading Time: 3 minutes In its 2021 Future Forum Pulse Report, workplace messaging platform Slack revealed that 44% of executives surveyed “want to work from the office every day, compared to 17% of employees, [with] 75% of executives saying they want to work from the office three to five days a week, versus only 34% of employees.” This discrepancy …

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The Top Challenges for Employers and the Workforce in 2022 | HqO

The Top Challenges Impacting Employers and the Workforce in 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minute To learn more about today’s workplace experience and emerging office trends, HqO partnered with leading research firm Verdantix to conduct exclusive interviews with executives from leading companies across the globe at the forefront of these initiatives. We published these findings in a new report, Office Insights 2022. Here is what every employer needs to know …

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The Return to the Office App Takes on New Purpose | HqO

The Return to the Office App Takes on New Purpose for the Hybrid Workforce

Reading Time: 3 minutes To 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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5 Ways Workplace Analytics Are Transforming the Office | HqO

5 Ways Workplace Analytics Are Transforming the Office

Reading Time: 3 minutes Companies are being more deliberate with their office strategies as they adapt to today’s hybrid workforce. Human Resources and Workplace Experience Managers are replacing hunches about what they think makes a great employee experience with workplace analytics tools that provide concrete data-driven insights.  “Employers can’t fix what they don’t understand.” That’s one of the most …

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Unifying the Workplace Experience | HqO and WORKTECH

Unifying the Workplace Experience

Reading Time: 3 minutes Even before the pandemic, workplace trends were paving the way for an entirely different set of expectations for many employees. Three areas in particular were accelerated by the impacts of COVID-19: flexibility, choice and autonomy, and an enhanced workplace experience.  In 2021, software company Density posed the following question to workplace managers: How do you …

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