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The Tenant Experience Technology Buyer’s Process | HqO

Navigating the Tenant Experience Technology Buyer’s Process

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Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a tale as old as time: commercial real estate (CRE) leaders have spent years searching for ways to attract and retain highly sought-after tenants, increase office value, and inform their investments to create efficiencies in building costs and operations. In today’s world, accomplishing these feats begins with focusing on the workplace experience. By making the …

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How Parking Needs Have Changed for a Post-COVID Workforce | HqO

How Parking Needs Have Changed for a Post-COVID Workforce

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Like many things in today’s climate, parking will look different as the workforce transitions back to the office. Some employees will be back at their desks full-time, others will continue to work remotely, and most will adopt a hybrid in-office and at-home approach. As a result, schedules will be more inherently flexible, shifting the way …

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Enter the TAMI vs. FIRE debate. As the modern workplace around us is changing, so are our opinions on the different types of tenants we serve.

TAMI vs. FIRE Tenants: Who They Are and Why They Matter

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Reading Time: 3 minutes If this past year has taught us anything, it’s that major change is already underway for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. CRE’s recent digital transformation has shed light on several important focus areas for office landlords and property teams, such as re-evaluating a portfolio’s technology stack and, more importantly, getting to know the tenants …

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What CRE Leaders Can Expect for the Future of Work

What CRE Leaders Can Expect for the Future of Work

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The events over the last 12 months have been unprecedented. We have all had to adapt to a new way of life, on both personal and professional fronts. The future of work may change forever, and there are many facets to this transformation. However, there is one very visible and positive change: the significant increase …

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Why Indoor Maps and Wayfinding Are Part of the Tenant Experience | HqO

5 Reasons Why Indoor Maps and Wayfinding Should be Part of the Tenant Experience

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Reading Time: 4 minutes We have all experienced that feeling of frustration when struggling to navigate a corporate office. From getting lost the first time you go to a company’s headquarters for a business meeting or job interview, to trying to locate the company restaurant on your first day, finding your way around can be nerve-wracking. Even in familiar …

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The Latest Property Tech Insights for Landlords | HqO

The Latest Property Tech Insights for Landlords

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Commercial property technology is transforming the way commercial real estate companies do business. Whether you help maintain a large industrial park or a single office building, proptech can make your job easier and illustrate opportunities you might otherwise have missed. This is exactly why the latest property tech insights for landlords can help you stay …

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Property Technology is the New Workplace Amenity | HqO

Property Technology is the New Workplace Amenity

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Reading Time: 3 minutes After decades of chugging along with business as usual, the commercial real estate industry has recently been shaken up by a new, complementary industry: property technology. Fondly known as proptech, this gamechanger brings both powerful software and an overall mentality shift — much like financial technologies, or fintech, did for the world of finance. Property …

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Frank Talks CRE: The Tenant Experience Snowball | HqO

Frank Talks CRE: The Tenant Experience Snowball

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The image of an accelerating, ever-enlarging snowball rolling downhill is one of the most universally understood symbols of a force; once begun, it continues to grow with a powerful, unrelenting, and unstoppable momentum of its own. A seemingly insignificant, hand-fashioned frozen sphere may start its journey unassumingly, gathering in diameter and energy as it descends …

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Strengthening Building Communities with End-to-End Solutions | HqO

Strengthening Building Communities with an End-to-End Operating System

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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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The Importance of CRE Benchmarking | HqO

Getting “On the Grid”: The Importance of CRE Benchmarking

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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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Guest Blog by Haven Diagnostics: Resolving a Patchwork Problem, Technology Innovations for a Safe Return to the Workplace | HqO

Resolving a Patchwork Problem: Technology Innovations for a Safe Return to the Workplace

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Guest Blog by Haven Diagnostics With cases of COVID-19 continuing to fluctuate across the United States, employers are struggling with the question of how to bring employees back to the workplace. Though the CDC produces a one-size-fits-all checklist for office re-entry, many commercial real estate (CRE) landlords are taking an extra level of precaution by …

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Trick or Treat: Debunking 5 Myths About Proptech and Tenant Experience with HqO

Trick or Treat: Debunking 5 Myths About Proptech and Tenant Experience

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Reading Time: 4 minutes With Halloween right around the corner, the world has been indulging in all things make-believe. We’ve seen the emergence of costumes, decorations, and candy galore — all of which wouldn’t exist without the storytelling traditions that bring the holiday to life. We all love a good urban legend; they can pique our interest, excite us, …

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Why an operating system for commercial real estate? with HqO

Why an Operating System for Commercial Real Estate?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes This past August marked the 25th anniversary of Microsoft’s formal launch of Windows 95, which introduced the broader population to the concept of an operating system for the very first time. At its launch, only about 30% of American homes had computers, and less than 10% had any form of internet access.  Now, it’s incredibly …

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