“I took less vacation this summer for that”: when employees take leave for the release of the GTA VI event video game

Nicolas has been waiting for 13 years... Thirteen years that this young 25-year-old executive has been patiently waiting for the release of GTA VI, the sequel to the video game saga developed by the Rockstar Games studio. “I remember playing there whole summer nights with my friends, until dawn,” he remembers with nostalgia. A few days before the release of the new opus, on November 19, expected to be one of the cultural events of the decade, he took a week off, from November 21 to 25, to play at home. “I’ve been planning this since last spring. I intentionally took less vacation this summer just for that.” A unique exile for this person accustomed to demanding financial schedules and outings with friends.

Nicolas's project is not an eccentric and isolated enterprise. The young Parisian executive will in fact be far from being the only employee to desert his office for the release of the latest opus of the GTA saga. According to the Lucca human resources platform, the ratio between requests…