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How is it different than the tradition of having a cigarette break with your pals, or going for a few beers after work? I don't know much about fika, but it do
by fit2rule 11y ago
How is it different than the tradition of having a cigarette break with your pals, or going for a few beers after work? I don't know much about fika, but it doesn't seem like an exception for Sweden - I see folks going to have a coffee with each other all the time. Is there something else about it that I'm missing?
- oliverdamian 11y agoFrom a visitor's point of view, I think fika complements or is a manifestation of the fluid, open, consensus-based way Swedes get things done.
- mhomde 11y agoI think those things are usually done with clicks of people while a "fika" will often apply to all in office. Like you yell "Hey, everyone let's go fika, and everyone goes fika". It's also usual to have a set fika appointment around 2 or 3
- a3n 11y ago> I think those things are usually done with clicks of people Yeah, like, "people who smoke." :)
- alkonaut 11y agoIn blue collar workplaces and many larger white collar workplaces there are scheduled coffee breaks. So the difference from spontaneous short coffee/cigarette/watercooler breaks is pretty big: it's a full company break over coffee, at least once or twice per day. You are considered a bad colleague if you are to busy to take the 20 minute fika with your peers.