GTA 6 day off: Palworld studio gives staff a five-day 'business trip to Vice City'

Pocketpair, the studio that makes Palworld, is giving a five-day holiday to every employee who plans to play GTA 6. The holiday runs from Thursday, November 19, the day GTA 6 comes out, to Monday, November 23. The studio shared the notice on Palworld’s X account on November 12.

“A business trip to Vice City”

The notice is called a “Special Company Holiday Announcement”. It says that on November 19, millions of gamers will be sitting at school or at work, looking out of the window. Pocketpair calls the launch a historic occasion that “deserves our full attention”.

During the holiday, staff are excused from their normal work. Instead, the notice says, they are “encouraged to undertake a business trip to Vice City”.

Pocketpair adds that work on updates for Palworld and Craftopia is going smoothly and should go ahead as planned. PC Gamer notes that the five days include a weekend.

Other companies giving time off

Pocketpair is not the only one, PC Gamer reports:

• Logitech has announced Logi Game Day, which gives its 7,000 employees a day off. Robin Piispanen, the general manager of its Logitech G gaming brand, says staff are free to play any game they want.
• Burger Motorsports, a California company that makes car performance parts, said on Instagram that it will pause work across the whole company on launch day. It said normal business “may be impacted”.
• Edison Motors, a truck maker in Canada, is giving its staff a four-day weekend from November 19.

Before you take the day off

GTA 6 unlocks at midnight local time on November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, Rockstar Support says. Our FAQ has the time where you live. To play the minute it unlocks, pre-load the game first: our pre-load guide shows how, and how much space you need.