Have you heard of the Dunbar number? It’s the number of social connections one person can maintain at any one time. It turns out that this also plays out at work. How is Robin Dunbar’s  research relevant for your workplace?What are the optimum numbers for teams and factories? How important are social connections and friendships at work, and how do these affect our productivity?Guest:Robin Dunbar is professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford. He wrote Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships and his new book, The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups, comes out next year.

Have you heard of the Dunbar number? It’s the number of social connections one person can maintain at any one time. It turns out that this also plays out at work. How is Robin Dunbar’s research relevant for your workplace? What are the optimum numbers for teams and factories? How important are social connections and friendships at work, and how do these affect our productivity? Guest: Robin Dunbar is professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford. He wrote Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships and his new book, The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups, comes out next year.

Have you heard of the Dunbar number?&nbsp;It’s the number of social connections one person can maintain at any one time.&nbsp;It turns out that this also plays out at work.&nbsp;How is Robin Dunbar’s&nbsp; research relevant for your workplace?What are the optimum numbers for teams and factories?&nbsp;How important are social connections and friendships at work, and how do these affect our productivity?Guest:Robin Dunbar is professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford. He wrote&nbsp;Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships&nbsp;and his new book, The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups, comes out next year.

When size matters at work: Dunbar's number

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You spend so much time on work, why accept the status quo, when there are ways to do it better? Get expert advice, research and hacks that will crush your inertia. Join Lisa Leong and other This Working Lifers as we experiment and explore the latest in the world of work. We cover policy issues, like hybrid workplaces and remote work, employee wellbeing and organisational culture, the use of AI, employee surveillance, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion. We talk about progress on wider issues that relate to work, like work life balance, organisational change, restructures, and casualisation. On This Working Life our focus is on everything related to the people in a workplace too, including culture, individual experiences, performance management and career advice.

You spend so much time on work, why accept the status quo, when there are ways to do it better?&nbsp;Get expert advice, research and hacks that will crush your inertia.

Join Lisa Leong and other This Working Lifers as we experiment and explore the latest in the world of work.
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We cover policy issues, like hybrid workplaces and remote work, employee wellbeing and organisational culture, the use of AI, employee surveillance, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion. We talk about progress on wider issues that relate to work, like work life balance, organisational change, restructures, and casualisation. On This Working Life our focus is on everything related to the people in&nbsp;a workplace too, including culture, individual experiences, performance management and career advice.

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