Logitech is giving 7,000 employees a paid day off to play games, and it names GTA 6

Logitech is giving every one of its roughly 7,000 employees a paid day off to play video games, in a company-wide benefit it calls Logi Game Day. The company announced it on November 10, nine days before GTA 6 comes out, and its own announcement names the game.

The day is not tied to GTA 6, or to any single game. Staff can take it at any point in the year that follows, and play whatever they want. What ties it to November 19 is Logitech's own framing: the company is holding a launch-day event at its Americas headquarters in San Jose, hosted by Logitech G general manager Robin Piispanen, who describes employees "diving into a game like GTA VI or Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4".

Who gets the day

Every employee, including interns, Logitech chief executive Hanneke Faber told Fortune. Faber said she will take hers on November 19 and host a gaming lounge in the office, and that chief financial officer Matteo Anversa plans to spend his on the racing game Forza. It is the first company-wide gaming day Logitech has held.

The argument Logitech is making

"It's time to retire the stereotype that gaming is a waste of time," Faber said in the announcement. "As a company designing products for work and play, we see every day how engagement in one sphere supports performance in the other."

Logitech put research behind it. The company cites its own Ctrl Tomorrow study, in which 81 percent of gamers said gaming builds confidence, lowers anxiety and goes with stronger performance at work. Chief people officer Elaine Laird said that when people "have dedicated time to log off, decompress and immerse themselves in play, they return with clearer focus".

Logitech sells keyboards, mice, headsets and steering wheels, so a week of coverage about gaming at work is worth something to it on its own. The announcement does not say what the day costs the company.

How many people are taking the day anyway

Logitech is formalising something employers are already seeing. In a Virgin Media O2 survey of 520 UK adults who expect to play GTA 6, half of those in work said they plan to take time off for it, and a third of that group plan to take two days or more. In the United States, BambooHR found time-off requests for November 19 running 13 percent above past years across 3.4 million workers on its platform.

GTA 6 launches on November 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.