Logitech, rather than processing the no-doubt massive load of time-off requests that would all mysteriously happen to fall on the same day, is just declaring November 19th its Logi Game Day and letting everybody take it off. Why November 19th? Guess.
Estimates put the company at just over 7,000 employees and all of them, from executives to interns, will get the day off to play GTA VI, any other game, or no game at all. It’s a day off, don’t let Logitech tell you what to do with it. No matter what its employees decide to do with their time, the company is smartly getting ahead of economists’ prognostications about just how much GTA VI will cost the economy in folks calling out of work to play by just dialing its productivity for the day down to zero.
What’s especially funny is that the press release for the event frontloads a bunch of statistics that talk about how gaming is good for professional performance. “In the company’s recent Logitech Ctrl Tomorrow study, 81% of gamers believe that gaming builds real-world confidence, reduces anxiety, and correlates with stronger day-to-day work performance.”
Yes, these things are probably true. But let’s not pretend that saying “As a company designing products for work and play, we see every day how engagement in one sphere supports performance in the other” is anything but the corporate version of handing your gym teacher a forged note from your mom saying it’s okay to skip class, except your gym teacher in this case is Logitech shareholders and your mom is GTA VI.
