Reading Time: 3 minutesThe future of work has changed dramatically in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with hybrid work becoming increasingly common across the corporate world. HqO’s State of Workplace Experience report shows, for example, that a large majority of employers and commercial real estate (CRE) companies expect that their employees and tenants will remain in a …
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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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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Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s June 2022, and you’re sitting at your desk… in the office. This hasn’t always been the case over the past few years; the COVID-19 pandemic prompted your company to reimagine its workplace model. Maybe you used to be full-time remote, and now you’re back in the office five days a week. Or, maybe you’ve …
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAccording 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 …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI sometimes try to remember what mobile access meant to me before joining HqO a year and a half ago. Up until that time, my only experience with mobile access was staying at a hotel that featured it as an amenity. As someone who has too many times sheepishly approached the concierge to replace a …
Reading Time: 6 minutesJuliana Medeiros People Operations Associate at HqO Juliana joined HqO in December 2021 as a People Operations Associate. Working on the Human Resources team, she collaborates regularly with professionals from other departments to ensure a seamless and positive experience for all new employees. Her day-to-day primarily involves onboarding and benefits enrollment. You started at the …
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 …
Reading Time: 5 minutesSamuel 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 …
Reading Time: 3 minutesDespite 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 …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe results are in: workplaces that can’t embrace a flexible work environment are witnessing declines in important experiences that promote a healthy work-life balance and employee satisfaction. According to a recent Insight Publishing article, Future Forum has released new insights and findings that are impacting the workplace experience (wx) for many employers and employees: “More …
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe most important thing employers can do to succeed in today’s market is to align organizational demands with employee demands, while still ensuring that employees are empowered to define the ways they prefer to work. But, how? There are many things that employers can do to support hybrid workers and place value into the workplace …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s almost impossible to avoid: the future of work is all about agility. The hybrid workplace model has taken center stage in the past few years, and now that remote work is both plausible and acceptable, we may never go back. Asana’s Anatomy of Work Global Index 2022 covers this change, explaining that “work-life balance, …
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 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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Reading Time: 3 minutesA few weeks ago, HqO sat down with Steve Kelly, the Vice President of Business Development at Ritual, to talk all things food and beverage. Ritual is one of HqO’s exclusive Marketplace partners that focuses on enhancing the workplace experience (WX) through office food ordering and delivery. Technology enablement, in turn, makes it easier than …
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