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Swedish employees and managers link fika to improved well-being, productivity, and innovation, while other companies adopt it to counter hybrid isolation and falling job satisfaction. Examples range from Zoom fika sessions and bake-ins to research on coordinated breaks boosting communication, reducing turnover, and raising productivity.","Sweden Has a CaffeinatedSecret to Happiness at Work  \nCompanies import the country's tradition of fika,a daily ritual of office-wide coffee breaks  \nould work be bet-ter if we all tooka collective coffeebreak?  \nWorkers inSweden certainlythink so.There,work life has longrevolved around fika,a once-ortwice-a-day ritual in which col-leagues put away phones,laptopsand any shoptalk to communeover coffee,pastries or othersnacks.Swedish employees andtheir managers say the culturaltradition helps drive employeewell-being,productivity and inno-vation by clearing the mind andfostering togetherness.  \nNow,as bosses and workerselsewhere try to reinvigorate of-fice life and flagging job satisfac-tion,fika fascination is seepinginto other workplaces.  \nThe Grand,a New York-basedcareer and leadership coachingplatform,summons its all-remotestaff of 10 every other Friday forcoffee and conversation overZoom.London-based Hubble,awebsite for finding flexible work-spaces,took up the tradition afterbeing introduced to it by a Swed-ish staff member.  \n“Everyone has an excuse to logoff and let their hair down,\"saidTushar Agarwal,chief executive ofHubble,where staff gather the lastThursday of every month forbaked goods,chitchat and,ofcourse,coffee.  \nA recent product offering—forpart-time office space with newcontract terms—sprang from adiscussion that took place duringfika,says chief of staff CharlieBastier.It's now one of the fast-est-growing revenuestreams,he says.  \n# No Starbucks run\n\nThe pressure to maketweaks to the daily ritualis particularly acute inthe U.S.Employees con-tinue to report feelingless engaged in their jobsthan in prepandemictimes,Gallup data show.  \nIn addition,bondingwith colleagues has be-come harder and less of apriority for many people inthe hybrid world of work.Some employers worry thelack of social cohesion isharming company cultureand operations.  \nAt The Grand's regularfika,staffers take turnshosting,leading with ca-sual conversation or aboard game such as Code  \nNames or a drawing competition.The Grand's co-founder Rei Wangsays that fika allows her to spendtime with her staff,making her abetter leader.  \n“Learning more about theirpassions and their geniuses helpsme understand and collaboratewith them,\"she says.  \nPronounced \"fee-kah,\"theSwedish culture of breaking forcoffee involves much more than aschlep to Starbucks.It's meant tobe a deliberate pause to providespace and time for people to con-nect.Many Swedish companiesbuild a mandatory fika into theworkday,while the Embassy ofSweden in Washington holds onefor staff weekly.IKEA,promoting  \nits Upphetta coffee maker on thecorporate website,extols the vir-tues of fika:\"When we disconnectfor a short period,our productiv-ity increases significantly.”  \n“Fika is where we talk life,wetalk everything but work itself,”said Micael Dahlen,professor ofwell-being,welfare and happinessat the Stockholm School of Eco-nomics.The ritual helps drive triv-sel,he says,a term that means acombination of workplace enjoy-ment and thriving.The concept isso fundamental to Swedish work-places that many companies inSweden have trivsel committees,he said.  \nDahlen said he suspects a pan-  \ndemic-era drop in office fikas con-  \ntributed to a sharp decline inSwedes'happiness at work.Justover half of workers in Sweden re-ported a high level of job satisfac-tion in 2022,according to Euro-stat,compared with 69.5%in 2017.  \n# A productivity booster\n\nThere's some evidence that com-munal coffee breaks help boostproductivity.In a study of call-center workers at Bank of Amer-ica,researchers at the Massachu-setts Institute of Technologyfound that teams that scheduled15-minute breaks together were18%more communicative with oneanother through the workday thangroups with staggered breaks.  \nAnnual turnover,likewise,was  \n12%among teams that held collec-tive coffee breaks versus 40%among other workers.In all,theteamwork fostered via the breaksled to an estimated $15 million inincreased annual productivity,says","cbCaib9YHuorRGqm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib9YHuorRGqm","pdf",1579148,2,1,5,"English","en",105,"# No Starbucks run\n## A productivity booster","[{\"question\":\"What is fika and how is it practiced at work in Sweden?\",\"answer\":\"Fika is a daily ritual (often once or twice a day) centered on shared coffee breaks. 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