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    Tom Redmayne, Managing Director at WiredScore

    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 ...

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    How OccasionGenius Connects HqO Customers with Popular Local Events

    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 ...

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    The Physical Office and Young Employees in the Workplace

    More than 40 million people left their jobs last year. This is because, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employees across the country came to the realization that they weren’t happy with their jobs. Specifically, young ...

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    Creating a Destination: How Fun and Utility Enhance Employee Experiences

    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 ...

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    Boosting Satisfaction and Productivity with In-Person Experiences

    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 ...

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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 ...