Logitech is giving staff a paid day off for GTA 6 launch day
Logitech's new Logi Game Day gives its roughly 7,000 staff a paid day off to play games, and the first one lands on November 19, GTA 6's launch day.
12th Nov 2026 07:45
Image via Rockstar Games
Logitech is giving staff a paid day off for GTA 6 launch day
Logitech's new Logi Game Day gives its roughly 7,000 staff a paid day off to play games, and the first one lands on November 19, GTA 6's launch day.
12th Nov 2026 07:45
Image via Rockstar Games
Logitech has decided that the best way to handle GTA 6's launch day is to stop fighting it, as the peripherals maker is giving its staff a paid day off to play games, and it's more than happy for them to spend it in Vice City.
The new scheme is called Logi Game Day, and according to Fast Company it covers Logitech's roughly 7,000 employees, gives each of them one paid day off a year to play games, with the first one set for November 19, which just so happens to be the day Grand Theft Auto 6 launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Staff can use the day on any game they like, but Logitech hasn't been shy about which one it expects most of them to pick, telling Fortune (as reported by VGC) that "if employees choose to spend their Gaming Time Off exploring Vice City on launch day, you won't hear any complaints from us."
Working from Vice City
Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber told Fortune that "it's time to retire the stereotype that gaming is a waste of time," adding that, as a company making products for work and play, "we see every day how engagement in one sphere supports performance in the other."
Chief people officer Elaine Laird went a step further, saying that "play is not the opposite of work," and that people who get dedicated time to "log off, decompress and immerse themselves in play" come back with clearer focus and fresh ideas, which is a quote we'd quite like to see framed in a few offices next week.
It's not hard to see why a company that sells gaming mice and keyboards would want to get ahead of the day, either, as Fast Company points out that a survey of 1,000 full-time US workers who play games regularly found 39% planned to ask for time off for GTA 6's release, while 36% planned to call in sick (we'd recommend the honest option, for what it's worth).
If you're lucky enough to have the day free, the PS5 version unlocks at midnight local time on November 19 and pre-loading is already open, so our GTA 6 pre-load guide has the timings, while plenty of smaller studios have been explaining how it feels to launch in GTA 6's month.
Well, it turns out the most important GTA 6 launch-day accessory might not be a controller after all, but an understanding boss.
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