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The 3 Components of a Workplace Experience Platform | HqO

The 3 Components of a Workplace Experience Platform

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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Building a Connected Experience with Mobile Technology

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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Gathering Data With a Workplace Experience App

Gathering Data with a Workplace Experience App

Reading Time: 3 minutes According to HqO’s State of Workplace Experience report, a growing number of landlords and commercial real estate (CRE) companies view data as significantly important to their overall business strategies. Moreover, a large majority of respondents (76%) surveyed in that report said that they already collect (or are looking to collect) data from a workplace experience …

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Navigating Uncertainty with Workplace Data | HqO

Navigating Uncertainty with Workplace Data

Reading Time: 3 minutes According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the commercial real estate (CRE) space has now entered a period of what it calls “certain uncertainty,” which is driven by higher-than-healthy inflation, a chaotic labor market, and generally elevated levels of economic uncertainty. Moreover, in the face of endemic COVID-19, landlords and others in the CRE …

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Opportunities for the Office in 2022 | HqO

Opportunities for the Office in 2022

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

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

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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HqO Publishes Industry Research in Office Insights 2022 Report | HqO

Companies with 1.6T in Combined Revenue Speak to Hybrid Work Disconnect in HqO Survey

Reading Time: 3 minutes Nearly 90% of employers surveyed have implemented some type of hybrid work arrangement, but overall they remain dissatisfied with how these models are working 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. We …

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Connecting Employees and Technology | HqO

Connecting Employees and Technology

Reading Time: 3 minutes The tools and technology employees have at their disposal will shape much of what they experience in their work. Much like the consumer-grade technology many employees use in their personal lives, they want their workplace technology to be both powerful and user-friendly. Research from employee experience expert Applaud identified hyper-personalized employee experiences as a key …

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Workplace Planning: How to Improve Your Tenant Experience

Workplace Planning: How to Improve Your Tenant Experience

Reading Time: 4 minutes Commercial real estate (CRE) data has spoken: when considering what to do with your office space this year, you need to put your tenants at the very center of your workplace planning strategies. In a recent CBS News article, Megan Cerullo discusses the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic on office buildings and the tenant companies …

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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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