🥳 Logitech has announced a day off for employees to play GTA 6
🎮 Dubbed “Logi Game Day”, it’s a specific day off given to employees to enjoy gaming
👏 Logitech’s own research has found positive links between professional performance and gaming
🙌 The option is there for the brand’s workforce to take the day off for GTA 6, or they can roll it over to 2027
Logitech has announced it’s giving employees the day off to play GTA 6 with its new ‘Logi Game Day’ initiative.
As per a press release, Logitech is introducing a “dedicated day off for employees to play games while formally recognizing the cognitive and professional benefits of gaming”, which marks the “first company-wide gaming day in Logitech’s history”.
The brand is hosting a live stream on November 19 at its American headquarters in San Jose to celebrate the day – ironically the same day GTA 6 launches – and the Swiss peripherals brand has confirmed it’s fine for workers to take the day off for Rockstar’s next title: “If employees choose to spend their Gaming Time Off exploring Vice City on launch day, you won’t hear any complaints from us.”
Logitech says that Logi Game Day is the “natural outcome” of the brand’s own research into gaming and professional performance. In the brand’s recent ‘Ctrl Tomorrow’ study, it found that 81% of gamers believe that gaming “builds real-world confidence, reduces anxiety, and correlates with stronger day-to-day work performance”.
The whole idea behind this is that taking time off to game is helpful for rest and recuperation for workers, plus can help sharpen skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving.
Logitech G’s General Manager Robin Piispanen is a former pro gamer, and noted that the “Game Day” provides the brand’s team a “shared purpose” and that the brand sees “firsthand how Logitech employees who sharpen their skills in-game translate directly back to work & problem solving”.
It’s probable a lot of the brand’s thousands-strong worldwide workforce will use the Game Day to play GTA 6 when it launches next week, although Logitech has said workers can defer it until 2027 if they wish.
GTA 6 launches next week, and you can still get a pre-order in if you haven’t purchased already. You also have until November 20 to claim the Vintage Vice City pack as part of the launch promo for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
If you’ve already pre-ordered, you can pre-load GTA 6 in prep for the full release so you’re ready to go on release day – just be prepared for the game’s hefty file size when you do.
That said, you can also play GTA 6 without installing anything, as Microsoft just announced that Xbox One players can play GTA 6 thanks to Xbox Cloud Gaming.
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Reece Bithrey is a journalist with bylines for Trusted Reviews, Digital Foundry, PC Gamer, TechRadar and more. He also has his own blog, UNTITLED, and graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in International History and Politics in 2023.