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    Using Workplace Experience to Make a Community Impact

    A few years ago, COVID-19 uprooted millions of people out of the physical office and into new, remote or hybrid work environments. However, the pandemic did not only affect the lives of corporate employers and ...

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    How Graphic Design Enhances the Workplace Experience

    As a Senior Graphic Designer at HqO, I know that design is integral to the workplace experience. I also know that many people don’t understand the important role that design plays in the workplace. And why would they? ...

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    Where Should Office Landlords Invest Next?

    To 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, ...

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    How to Use Property Management Software for Tenant Engagement

    The future of work has changed, and for the foreseeable future, tenants will continue to adopt hybrid work models. The shift towards hybrid work has led employers to introduce new workplace technologies to address ...

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    Making Purposeful Workplace Investments

    The 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 ...

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    Why Landlords Need to Invest in Hybrid Work

    Across the nation, people are burned out from work and exhausted. According to Forbes, a new study by Asana looked at over 10,000 knowledge workers across seven countries, and found about 70% of people experienced ...

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    Conversations with B. Joseph Pine II

    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 ...

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    Defining Workplace Experience

    So, 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 ...

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    Workplace Events: How to Increase Employee Engagement

    A few years ago, COVID-19 forced employees out of the office and into remote or hybrid work environments. By now, most offices have reopened and business leaders are embracing a hybrid work model — our research shows ...

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    Flexible Views: Defining the ‘New Normal’

    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 ...

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    Using Technology to Optimize Hybrid Work

    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, ...

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    Workplace Data and Analytics: Making Smarter Buildings

    Today, almost every company in the United States uses data and analytics to improve their businesses. But as landlords try to navigate a new economic environment – one that is constantly changing – many have realized ...

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    The 3 Components of a Workplace Experience Platform

    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 ...

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    Why You Need a Workplace Experience Platform for Your Employees

    As 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 ...

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    Building a Connected Experience with Mobile Technology

    “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 ...

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    Improving Your Workplace Experience Toolset

    The concept of ‘work’ has continued to evolve the more we navigate a post-pandemic world: recent data by Leesman, an HqO company, reveals that 60% of employees currently work in a hybrid way. Similarly, 37% of employees ...

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    How Landlords are Using a Return to Office App to Promote the Workplace

    Now that employees are returning to the office, landlords and employers alike are navigating how to support the growing need for hybrid work models. Additionally, since employers (tenant companies) are prioritizing ...

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    Gathering Data with a Workplace Experience App

    According to HqO’s State of Workplace Experience report, a growing number of landlords and commercial real estate (CRE) companies view data as significantly important to their overall business strategies. Moreover, a ...

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    Employee Experience Platforms and ‘Collaborative Equity’

    In the last few years, the state of the workplace has drastically changed and employers are prioritizing hybrid workplace environments. Since COVID-19 has upended how corporate leaders interact with their employees and ...

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    Risky Business: Addressing Hybrid Work Challenges

    It’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 ...