Hybrid Workplace
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December 15th, 2021Hybrid Work is Driving the Digital Workplace Market
November 24th, 2021$180m Flows into Occupancy Analytics Companies as Market Anoints its First Unicorn
In the space of three days this week, two already well-funded Occupancy Analytics companies closed Series C and D rounds, underscoring (in case anyone was in doubt) investor confidence in the move to hybrid working driving demand for digital workplaces. On Monday, California-based Vergesense announced that it had closed a $60m Series C round led […]
Work is at an Unprecedented Junction with an Inevitable Conclusion
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the US workforce spent just 5% of their total working time remote from the office. By the spring of 2020, that figure had risen to 60% and remained at a similar level for over a year, according to an April 2021 special report by The Economist. In Europe, 89% of companies now […]
Buildings, Workplaces, & the Metaverse Future
Today Facebook officially rebranded as “Meta” underlining their clear intentions to become a leader in Metaverse development. The term “Metaverse” will no doubt trigger a new era of challenging explanations, potential applications, and endless hype within technological circles, just as we saw with the IoT, the cloud, the internet, or electricity. The term metaverse was […]
2 Workplace Experience Deals in 1 Day Signals Growing Competition for Dominance
The recent acquisitions of Office App and Lane by HqO and VTS respectively, both announced on 19thOctober, are the latest indication that well-funded workplace experience app suppliers are seeking to gain dominance. The market is still fragmented given the number of players – over 100 suppliers globally, according to our Workplace Experience Apps report. HqO, a […]
Hybrid Work Models Challenge Offices to Compete with Homes
Office occupancy has reached its highest levels since March 2020 over the past month. Driven by high vaccination rates and the return of children to school in major markets, September has recorded an 18-month high of 87% occupancy compared to pre-lockdown levels, according to data from Metrikus. We may still have turbulence ahead but this is […]
Disruption, Complexity, & Consolidation: The Workplace in the COVID Era
“The age of remote work is upon us,” they say. After almost 18 months of lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and workplace safety policies that have prevented the vast majority of workers from going into the office, employees and employers have learned to accept remote work. As the pandemic rolls on around the world, remote work is […]
Deployment of Workplace Apps Driven by Hybrid Working Models
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Inpixon, an indoor intelligence company, recently announced that its smart office app, acquired in the recent CXApp acquisition, had been selected by a major European-based commercial and retail banking firm with more than 50,000 employees for implementation across more than 75 locations. This deployment supports the […]
2020 Reshaped the Workplace, 2021 Will Reshape the Workforce
2020 has become synonymous with COVID-19 and with vaccines being released towards the end of the year, many celebrated the arrival of 2021 like it was an end of the pandemic and a return to some kind of normality. This is, of course, not the case. While we continue to make remarkable strides to end […]