What Landlords Need to Know in 2022
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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 …
A More Meaningful Workplace: From the Inside Looking Out
Reading Time: 6 minutes I take a lot of notes. Post-its, Google Docs, my Notes app, napkins, mental notes. I’m always listening, especially when you think I’m not. This is how I know what you need, what you want, and what you don’t like. And, usually, what you’re feeling at any given moment when I’m walking or sitting nearby. …
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Enhancing the Hybrid Work Model
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite it being the most favored approach to work in 2022, hybrid work models have a few unavoidable challenges. Most importantly, they can be difficult to achieve in an effective, sustainable manner — especially to those organizations who were not set up to transition into hybrid working prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at the …
Inside HqO: Isabelle Sfez
Reading Time: 6 minutes Isabelle Sfez Head of Corporate Sales (France & Italy) at HqO Isabelle has been with for nearly three years now, having joined the team during the HqO-Office App merger. As the Head of Corporate Sales in France and Italy, she guides her regional team through internal alignment meetings, and also works with members across the …
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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A New Frontier for the Workplace
Reading Time: 3 minutes The more the workforce changes, the more companies have to adapt. Work models and environments look very different now than they did in late 2019, when the COVID-19 pandemic instilled mass uncertainty in commercial real estate (CRE) markets across the globe. Since then, decision makers in charge of real estate investments have been in a …
Strengthening Workplace Connections with Wellness and Beauty Services
Reading Time: 8 minutes LISA App — one of HqO’s best-in-class Marketplace partners — is a leading beauty and wellness provider that is making waves in the world of workplace experience. The company partners with employers (as well as office and residential property managers) to bring self-care directly to where people work and live. Their goal is to help …
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Inside HqO: Steve Robins
Reading Time: 8 minutes Steve Robins Director of Product Marketing at HqO Steve has been with HqO since late 2021, helping to grow the company at the intersection of its Marketing, Product, Customer, and Sales teams. Steve listens to customers, prospects, and users to ensure that the company’s products and messaging resonate with them. He also meets regularly with …
Engineering a Great Workplace Experience
Reading Time: 6 minutes As a software engineer, my job is to work on the small details. When I saw an opportunity to contribute to HqO’s blog, I jumped on it, because I thought it’d be a fun change of pace to step back and discuss the bigger picture of our company and the products we spend our days …
Inside HqO: Amanda Pontbriand
Reading Time: 7 minutes Amanda Pontbriand Implementation Lead at HqO Amanda has been with HqO since 2020, having seen the company (and her role) evolve significantly over that period of time. Currently, Amanda helps manage customer relationships throughout the onboarding and implementation processes, making sure that all partner and product integrations are working successfully and that customer goals are …
The ROI of Employee Engagement
Reading Time: 3 minutes “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.” Perhaps Doug Conant, former CEO of Campbell’s Soup, could predict the future. Conant shared these insights far before the COVID-19 pandemic came into being — and yet they ring true now more than ever before. But what exactly did he mean by “winning” …
Workplace Experience: the Secret Behind High Performing Teams
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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Refining Your Flex Space Strategy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Though there is no one-size-fits-all solution, there are strategic ways to think about offering a flexible working environment for tenants and their employees. Below, we walk you through four major questions to align your goals with the best results across your entire portfolio. Who Will You Serve? When it comes to flexible workplaces, there are …
How Flex Enables ‘Work from Anywhere’
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 …