Logitech, rather than deal with the huge amount of time off requests that would mysteriously fall on the same day, simply declares November 19th to be its Logi Game Day and lets everyone take it off. Why November 19? Guess.
Estimates put the company at just over 7,000 employees and everyone from executives to interns will get a 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 intelligently anticipates economists’ predictions on the scale GTA VI it will cost the economy the number of people who take time off work to play by simply reducing its daily productivity to zero.
What’s especially fun is that the press release for the event features a bunch of stats that explain how good the game is for professional performance. “In the company’s recent Logitech Ctrl Tomorrow study, 81% of gamers believe gaming builds real-world confidence, reduces anxiety, and correlates with better everyday job performance. »
Yes, these things are probably true. But let’s not pretend that saying “As a company that designs products for work and play, we see every day how engagement in one area supports performance in the other” is anything but the business version of giving your gym teacher a fake note from your mother saying you can skip class, except your gym teacher in this case is a shareholder in Logitech and your mother is a shareholder in Logitech. GTA VI.
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