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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 minutesHow 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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Boosting Satisfaction and Productivity with In-Person Experiences

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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe physical office has the potential to improve employee productivity and help companies build stronger corporate cultures.  A report from researchers at the University of Chicago, for example, finds that remote employees complete fewer hours of work per week than their in-office counterparts. That report is supported by a recent paper in Nature Human Behavior, …

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Where Should Office Landlords Invest Next? | HqO

Where Should Office Landlords Invest Next?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTo fully achieve market success through creating memorable workplace experiences, landlords and property teams are already making investments that bring both fun and utility to the workplace. These investments, regardless of category or scale, are being powered through workplace experience platforms like HqO.   Combining Fun and Utility In regards to the “fun” side of …

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Making Purposeful Workplace Investments | HqO

Making Purposeful Workplace Investments

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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe experiences that your property or portfolio offer hold more weight than ever before, especially when they come to the workplace. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequential happenings (i.e. lower building occupancy rates, changes in the way people work, and the Great Resignation putting employee demands front and center), landlords have a lot to …

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Conversations with B. Joseph Pine II

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Reading Time: 5 minutesB. Joseph Pine II Best-selling author, speaker, and management advisor B. Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. He is a Co-Founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to …

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Defining Workplace Experience

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Reading Time: 4 minutesSo, what is workplace experience?  It’s a term that has become increasingly common, but it can take on many different meanings depending on the company. In order to understand the benefits of improving the workplace experience, it’s important to first have a clear understanding of both the term and its importance for employers. Simply put, …

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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 minutesWith 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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Why Employees Need a Workplace Experience Platform | HqO

Why You Need a Workplace Experience Platform for Your Employees

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAs we navigate through a post pandemic world, the workplace continues to evolve right before our eyes. Today, corporate employees prefer a flexible, hybrid work model over working full-time in an office. According to Allen Bernard,​​ research shows that 97% of business leaders think hybrid work environments will not damage corporate culture long-term, and that …

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Using Data to Generate Higher-Level Insights

Using Data to Generate Higher-Level Insights

Real Estate Experience Trends

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a world defined by constant change and elevated levels of economic uncertainty, commercial real estate (CRE) companies and property teams have increasingly recognized the need to gather more information on tenant needs and behaviors. HqO’s State of Workplace Experience report finds, for example, that a majority of landlords now think that data on tenant …

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Opportunities for the Office in 2022 | HqO

Opportunities for the Office in 2022

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Reading Time: 3 minutesOnly 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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Employees Want More From Their Tenant Experience | HqO

92% of Landlords Believe Employees Want More From Their Buildings – And They’re Prepared to Deliver

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLandlords investing in tenant experience teams and tech-based communication tools   Fresh off the heels of HqO’s survey of corporate employers, we’re pleased to release key findings from our commissioned survey of select international landlords, all of which have at least 1M square feet of commercial real estate property.  The top-line takeaways? Overall, today’s landlords are …

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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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Happy Office: The ROI of Employee Engagement | HqO

The ROI of Employee Engagement

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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” …

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