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How Fun and Utility Enhance the Employee Experience | HqO

Creating a Destination: How Fun and Utility Enhance Employee Experiences

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Reading Time: 3 minutes How can we make the physical workplace more enticing to hybrid employees? It’s a fair question, one that many corporate employers have been asking themselves since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The more the industry collectively mulls it over, the more companies realize that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to a better workplace. Though …

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The 3 Components of a Workplace Experience Platform | HqO

The 3 Components of a Workplace Experience Platform

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Reading Time: 3 minutes With workplace experience platforms taking center stage, you may be asking yourself “What features should every workplace experience platform have?” In general, workplace experience platforms are the most comprehensive when they include three main features: a scalable and secure employee app, workplace modules, and a platform that integrate with the systems you already have. Below, …

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Opportunities for the Office in 2022 | HqO

Opportunities for the Office in 2022

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Only a few years ago, commercial real estate (CRE) was all about tradition.  The industry depended on long-term, sometimes decades-long leases. Property demand was measured by location and physical amenities, meaning that owners and operators would invest in buildings in or around central business districts. If the buildings weren’t located in a city center, they …

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Inside HqO: Sam Warren, VP of Sales | HqO

Inside HqO: Samuel Warren

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Samuel Warren Vice President of Sales, Europe, at HqO Sam started at HqO in 2019, as the company’s first international hire. In his new role as a Vice President, he can be found having regular meetings with customers, HqO’s Go-to-Market team, and many other internal groups across the organization to ensure alignment and expand HqO’s …

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Happy Office: Bridging the Executive-Employee Disconnect | HqO

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

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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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Using a Workplace Management Platform for Workplace Experience | HqO

How a Workplace Management Platform Creates an Ecosystem of Experiences

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Reading Time: 3 minutes “Companies should put tenant and end-user preferences at the center of every business decision,” writes Surabhi Kejriwal of Deloitte. Improving and unifying the workplace experience across a company’s real estate portfolio is a top priority for landlords and property teams. To do so, they are adopting intuitive property technology (proptech) — or more specifically, workplace …

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Workplace Experience: the Secret Behind High Performing Teams | HqO

Workplace Experience: the Secret Behind High Performing Teams

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Reading Time: 4 minutes It goes without saying that the workplaces we are experiencing today are very different from the workplaces of just a few years ago. In a relatively short period of time, we’ve witnessed the unparalleled impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. First, there was a massive shift towards remote work for many companies who were positioned to …

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Driving Employee Productivity with Workplace Technology | HqO

Driving Productivity with Workplace Technology

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Reading Time: 3 minutes As companies around the world embrace hybrid models of working, which see employees splitting their time between home and the office, the concept of productivity is evolving. Organizations are no longer able to quantify such an abstract idea through physical presence alone, as many workplaces will — at least for the foreseeable future — be …

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Work from Anywhere and Flex Space | HqO

How Flex Enables ‘Work from Anywhere’

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Work-from-home. Remote work. Hybrid work. The past few years have introduced an abundance of buzzwords to the commercial real estate (CRE) industry, all focused around the idea of empowering tenants and their employees to work in the environments that best match and support their needs. We can trace these discussions back to numbers portraying a …

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Apple Wallet Touchless Entry and Workplace Experience Solutions | HqO

Apple Wallet Touchless Entry Underscores the Need for Workplace Experience Solutions

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Reading Time: 3 minutes In today’s fast-moving and ever-changing market, mobile access and flexibility are paramount when selecting a workplace experience provider, particularly when it comes to touchless entry. Tenants and employees are no longer using physical keycards to access their buildings and they have come to expect convenient contactless entry. Much like how we all now rely on …

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Employee Well-Being, Technology, and the Modern Workplace | HqO

Doing Right: How Tech-Enabled Workplaces can Improve Employee Well-being

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  According to The Starr Conspiracy’s recent report, Workplace Well-being: The New Reality, the estimated 2021 market for workplace well-being technology was worth $16.3 billion. This estimate came hot on the heels of a more-than-500% – in total, a staggering $1.8 billion – increase in investment in employee well-being in 2019-2020. Initially, these numbers might seem …

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