Brains, hormones and time - the invisible causes of better workplace culture
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The Conversation Ends at Five
We discovered that every time social group sitting round a table at a pub or a reception maybe got above five mysteriously suddenly broke up into two conversations. There are several contributory components one of which is you can only have one speaker at a time and in a conversation everybody else has to remain quiet. The other part of the problem is that it's very difficult to hear what somebody is saying across the circle once it gets bigger than about four or five people you're just too far away really to hear at normal voice levels so you stop shouting.
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