The skiing holiday, also known as the winter break, was introduced during the 1930s as a means of breaking up the long spring semester and to encourage children to participate in winter sports.
Helsingin Sanomat hears from psychologists and consultants about young Finnish adults who don’t know how to follow basic rules or norms when they enter the workforce.
Sociologists suggest that so-called ‘knowledge workers’ in Finland — people whose job is to “think for a living” — are more likely to suffer from guilt-addled melancholy.