Logitech is giving every employee a day off to play video games, and its gaming boss is already naming GTA VI as one way to spend it. The Swiss-American maker of mice, keyboards and headsets calls the new perk Logi Game Day, and says it is the first company-wide gaming day in its history.
The company announced the perk on November 10 in a release from its bases in Lausanne, Switzerland, and San Jose, California. Its gaming brand, Logitech G, will mark the occasion with a streaming event at its Americas headquarters in San Jose on November 19, the same date Rockstar has set for the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
What Logitech’s bosses said
Chief executive Hanneke Faber framed it as a statement about gaming itself. “It’s time to retire the stereotype that gaming is a waste of time,” she said, adding that a company making products “for work and play” sees one side feed the other every day.
Logitech G general manager Robin Piispanen, a former competitive gamer who will host the San Jose stream, was more specific about the games. He listed “a game like GTA VI or Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4,” along with chasing lap times in Forza, as examples of how staff might spend the day, and said Game Day “gives our team a shared purpose.”
Chief people officer Elaine Laird offered the line most likely to end up on office whiteboards: “Play is not the opposite of work.”
The numbers behind the perk
Logitech tied the day off to its own research. In its Logitech Ctrl Tomorrow study, the company says 81% of gamers believe gaming builds real-world confidence, reduces anxiety and goes along with stronger day-to-day work. A second study it cites found that 98.8% of enterprise IT decision-makers said gaming skills carry over to the workplace, from strategic thinking to performing under pressure.
Those are survey answers about what people believe, not measurements of productivity, and both studies come from a company that sells gaming gear. Logitech’s release does not say whether the day is paid, which date staff will take it, or how many employees it covers.
Why the timing matters
The announcement lands nine days before the biggest game launch in years. GTA VI has been delayed twice, first from 2025 to May 26, 2026 and then to November 19, and November industry estimates put preorders at 9.69 million, which would make it the most preordered game ever. Physical copies, which carry download codes instead of discs, went on sale November 12 so players can pre-load a week ahead.
That kind of build-up has turned launch day into a workplace problem. Logitech is choosing to embrace it rather than fight a wave of sick days, and it can point to its own product line as a reason. Streamers are gearing up too: Kai Cenat started a five-game GTA marathon on Twitch two weeks before release, and Rockstar booked Travis Scott, Cardi B and Kodak Black for a GTA VI launch festival in Miami. PC players will have to sit out the day, since Rockstar lists only PS5 and Xbox for November 19.
Logitech G’s San Jose stream goes live on Thursday, November 19.
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