Do People Mix at Mixers? Structure, Homophily, and the “Life of the Party”
We used electronic name tags to conduct a fine-grained analysis of the pattern of socializing dynamics at a mixer attended by about 100 business…
Brandon Klein
Sep 09, 2015
Getting Closer at the Company Party: Integration Experiences, Racial Dissimilarity, and Workplace Relationships
Using survey data from two distinct samples, we found that reported integration behaviors (e.g., attending company parties, discussing nonwork…
Brandon Klein
Sep 09, 2015
Friends at Work? Not So Much
ONCE, work was a major source of friendships. We took our families to company picnics and invited our colleagues over for dinner. Now, work is a more…
Brandon Klein
Sep 09, 2015
Why Being The Most Connected Is A Vanity Metric
A basic pattern of network science is clustering. People tend to gravitate to clusters for a lot of reasons whether it be working in the same company…
Brandon Klein
Aug 31, 2015
Why Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Few Americans today say they know their neighbors’ names, and far fewer report interacting with them on a daily basis. Pulling data from the General…
Brandon Klein
Aug 24, 2015
Environment - engineering serendipity
The loftlike San Francisco office of software maker Atlassian has an open central amphitheater, where all-staff gatherings and midday boot camp…
Brandon Klein
Aug 21, 2015
Hylo - A new kind of social network that helps real communities create, together.
Discover opportunities all around you. We’re surrounded by incredible people, skills, and resources. But it’s hard to know who to connect with, for…
Brandon Klein
Aug 21, 2015
Why Collaboration Fails
The average worker still spends 28 percent of their time managing email 65 percent of a sales rep’s time is still not spent selling Only 7 percent of…
Brandon Klein
Jul 13, 2015