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Using an Employee Experience Platform to Connect the Workforce

Using an Employee Experience Platform to Connect the Workforce

Reading Time: 3 minutes What seems like a lifetime ago, people used to commute to the office seven days a week for an eight-hour work day. However, things have changed — likely never returning to what it once was. This is because, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many employees don’t want to be in the office full-time. …

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Annmarie Anderson, Workplace Experience Manager

Reading Time: 6 minutes Annmarie Anderson Workplace Experience Manager at HqO As a Workplace Experience Manager, Annmarie coordinates HqO’s Central Programming, which consists of all of our content available to anyone in the app, on behalf of HqO customers. Before coming to HqO, Annmarie worked on the Undergraduate Admissions Marketing team at Northeastern University. She’s been with the company …

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3 Ways to Earn Back the Tenant Commute

3 Ways to Earn Back the Tenant Commute

Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite low occupancy and utilization rates, over half (52%) of employers still believe that companies are more likely to succeed when employees spend more time in the office.  This has led to tenant companies trying to balance the best of both worlds: by adopting hybrid work models, they can give employees more flexibility in their …

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Tom Redmayne, Managing Director at WiredScore

Reading Time: 6 minutes Tom Redmayne Managing Director, Global Business Development at WiredScore  WiredScore is the organization behind the WiredScore and SmartScore certifications for smart buildings. As Managing Director of Global Business Development, Tom is responsible for leading WiredScore’s global go-to-market strategy. Before moving into his current position, he served as WiredScore’s Country Director for the United States, and, …

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How OccasionGenius Connects HqO Customers with Popular Local Events

Reading Time: 5 minutes OccasionGenius is a Virginia-based technology company that connects users with the most popular local events in their area. HqO recently sat down with Nathaniel Marcus, CEO of the company, to understand more about how they add value to the workplace experience for employers.   What does OccasionGenius do for its partners and users? Can you …

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How Fun and Utility Enhance the Employee Experience | HqO

Creating a Destination: How Fun and Utility Enhance Employee Experiences

Reading Time: 3 minutes How 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

Reading Time: 4 minutes The 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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Conversations: Joe Pine and the Experience Economy | HqO

Conversations with B. Joseph Pine II

Reading Time: 5 minutes B. 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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Flexible Views: Defining the ‘New Normal’ | HqO

Flexible Views: Defining the ‘New Normal’

Reading Time: 3 minutes Does anyone really know what the term “new normal” means? For the past few years, we’ve heard many different terminologies to describe the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic — and specifically, its impact on the workplace and commercial real estate (CRE) industry. No phrase, however, is as prevalent as the “new normal,”with employers and property …

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Using Technology to Optimize Hybrid Work

Reading Time: 3 minutes The 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 …

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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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