{"id":1125,"date":"2013-08-08T16:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2013-08-08T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:10:22","slug":"remote-work-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/08\/remote-work-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote work, relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since almost a year ago I work from home and travel to visit customers, this makes me be close to the customers, but for the some of the delivery teams I have lost the capacity to have face to face interaction, that now is limited to a couple of times a year.<\/p>\n<p>I found this interesting analysis of the Dumbar&#8217;s number in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/1682705\/how-to-create-meaningful-work-relationships-while-working-from-home\">article<\/a>. This basically confirms what I already know and feel (you need to invest more time in communications, be patient and focus more on the relationships), it just create the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunbar%27s_number\">concept of Dumbar&#8217;s number<\/a> that tries to standardize the behavior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DunbarsNumber.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1127\" alt=\"DunbarsNumber\" src=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DunbarsNumber-300x160.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DunbarsNumber-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DunbarsNumber-1024x548.png 1024w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DunbarsNumber-500x267.png 500w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DunbarsNumber.png 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Looking more about the concept, I found this interesting picture done by <a href=\"http:\/\/fjglynn.com\/2010\/09\/27\/nobody-goes-there-anymore-it%E2%80%99s-too-crowded\/\">Joe Glynn<\/a>, that really contributes to visualize some more real examples with some of the communications channels almost all people use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/robin-dunbar_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1129\" alt=\"robin-dunbar_01\" src=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/robin-dunbar_01-1024x470.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/robin-dunbar_01-1024x470.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/robin-dunbar_01-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/robin-dunbar_01-500x229.jpg 500w, https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/robin-dunbar_01.jpg 1314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since almost a year ago I work from home and travel to visit customers, this makes me be close to the customers, but for the some of the delivery teams I have lost the capacity to have face to face interaction, that now is limited to a couple of times a year. 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