Logitech Gives All Employees a Flexible Paid Day Off to Play Games

Logitech is giving every employee a flexible paid day off to play games, a benefit it calls Logi Game Day. Separately, the peripherals giant plans a streaming event on November 19, the day of Grand Theft Auto VI's launch. The perk is quite generous. Logitech says Game Day is the first company-wide gaming day in its history, a dedicated day off for staff to sit down and play.

This benefit covers everyone, from full-time employees to interns, across a workforce of roughly 7,000 people. According to Logitech's own announcement, the day off is flexible and it is not meant exclusively for November 19. This means employees aren't locked into taking time off next week. The company isn't handing any of its employees GTA VI's launch day as a company holiday, although it may seem that way.

However, there is one other thing tied to the GTA 6 launch. Logitech G plans a streaming event at its San Jose headquarters on November 19, the day GTA VI arrives, to mark the occasion. The flexible day off and the launch-day stream are two different things. Only the second is pinned to Rockstar Games' release.

Logitech's launch-day stream adds another corporate name to the build-up, alongside Xbox, who launched a not-so-Leonida-inspired console.

We know this because we have tracked the whole wave, from HR data showing a GTA 6 time-off surge to a studio giving its team December off and a business shutting down entirely for launch day. Celebrities are in on it too, with Lewis Hamilton cancelling work and Cara Delevingne booking two weeks off. Meanwhile, the Australian government is using the launch to explain unpaid leave.

A controller maker giving staff a day to game is smart and the flexible version is arguably better than a single mandated day, since employees can burn it on GTA VI on November 19 or save it for whatever they are waiting on.