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feet, since there was almost no way to put many more than 150 people
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in a building that size.” It appears the company has kept to this stan-
dard, reporting 7,000 associates in 45 locations. If you do the math on
that, it works out to just about 155 employees per location.
Our Tipping-Point Research
Limiting unit size is one way a larger enterprise can maintain con-
nectivity and defy the tipping point. Our goal was to see if the
tipping-point phenomenon held up under the light of a more rigorous
scientific study of employee engagement. Figure 2.1 shows the results
of Best-Places-to-Work employers ranked by size and their overall en-
gagement scores. As you can see, the overall mean score goes down as
the average employer size goes up—our data support Dunbar’s theory.
These results are statistically significant beyond luck or chance; they
truly represent a new reality, particularly for those employers that are
large or growing in employee population.
Figure 2.1
