Logitech is letting its staff take a day off just to play GTA 6

Logitech has introduced Logi Game Day, a new benefit that gives each of its roughly 7,000 employees worldwide a dedicated day off to play video games. The Swiss-American peripherals maker announced the policy on November 10, nine days before GTA 6 goes on sale.

Staff can choose any game and take the day at any point until November 2027. Logitech will keep its offices open on November 19, and the company describes the initiative as the first company-wide gaming day in its history.

Logitech G, the company’s gaming brand, will host a livestream from Logitech’s Americas headquarters in San Jose, California, on GTA 6’s launch day. Robin Piispanen, general manager of Logitech G and a former competitive gamer, will lead the broadcast.

“It’s time to retire the stereotype that gaming is a waste of time,” said Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber. Faber said that making products for both work and play gives Logitech a daily view of how involvement in one part of life lifts results in the other.

Piispanen named GTA 6, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Forza as the kind of titles staff might play, whether solo or in online team matches. “Game Day gives our team a shared purpose,” he said. He added that employees who build skills in games apply them directly to their work and problem solving.

“Play is not the opposite of work,” said Elaine Laird, Logitech’s chief people officer. Laird said employees who get protected time to disconnect and play return to work more focused and better equipped to handle difficult problems.

The perk follows Logitech’s Ctrl Tomorrow study, which drew on a representative sample of more than 9,400 people across nine countries. In that research, 81% of gamers said gaming builds real-world confidence and reduces anxiety. Logitech also cites a survey in which 98.8% of enterprise IT decision makers said gaming skills carry over to workplace abilities such as strategic thinking, complex problem solving, and working under pressure. Both findings rest on respondents’ own assessments rather than measured job performance.

Burger Motorsports, a California performance tuning company, will suspend all operations on November 19 after several employees asked for the day off. Data from HR software firm BambooHR shows time-off requests for the date running between 9% and 17% above a typical third Thursday in November.

Strauss Zelnick, chief executive of GTA 6 publisher Take-Two Interactive, said earlier this year that he expects “a lot of people will be calling in sick on November 19.”

GTA 6 arrives on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S as the first new mainline Grand Theft Auto game since GTA 5 in 2013. Rockstar Games pushed the title back twice, first from its original 2025 window to May 26, 2026, and then to November 19. Logitech has not said whether Logi Game Day will return as an annual benefit.