How Baked Goods, Chitchat and Coffee Could Reinvigorate Work Life

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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A Swedish coffee ritual called “fika” may be the key to workplace happiness? Wall Street Journal reporter Anne Marie Chaker joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss how the cultural tradition may help increase productivity and innovation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	Here's your money briefing for Friday, February 9th.
0:40.0	I'm J. R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:49.0	Let's admit it. The workday can seem extra long sometimes.
0:59.0	I'm in front of this computer all day. I hardly ever talk to my coworkers. They're all staring at their computers. They're all really nice people, but I don't even know what's going on with them.
1:03.9	It feels like we all need to take a break, a collective coffee break.
1:10.5	In Sweden, there's a name for that. FICA.
1:13.0	And some say it can boost productivity.
1:16.0	It's different than just you and I taking a quick coffee run to Starbucks
1:21.0	and grabbing something and coming back
1:23.0	and just talking about work while we're doing it.
1:25.6	FICA in the workplace is really a conscious stepping away
1:30.4	from your desk, stepping away from laptops and cell phones and going to a space that has nothing
1:37.9	work-related.
1:39.7	So does it work?
1:41.7	We'll talk to Wall Street Journal reporter Ann Marie Chaker.
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