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‘Gotta prioritise things’: Bosses brace for a wave of GTA VI sickies
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Australian employers are bracing for a wave of no-shows when Grand Theft Auto VI launches next Thursday, and some bosses are even giving their staff the day off.
The game is the first new instalment in 13 years of one of the best-selling entertainment franchises in history. Sony and Microsoft both said this week it had become the most pre-ordered game ever in their digital stores.
Even its publisher expects people to stay at home. Strauss Zelnick, chief executive of Rockstar Games owner Take-Two Interactive, told a conference in Las Vegas he thought “a lot of people will be calling in sick on November 19”.
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Businesses are bracing for a sudden wave of mid-week sickies as staff scramble to lock in time off work for the long-awaited launch of Grand Theft Auto 6.
Fresh data from employment platform Employment Hero which tracked 870,275 Australian workers has uncovered a 29 per cent surge in annual leave bookings for next Thursday, November 19, compared with the same time last year.
Men aged 18 to 44 are overwhelmingly driving the workplace exodus, with leave requests among the demographic skyrocketing by 84 per cent, despite accounting for less than a third of the tracked workforce.
Thirteen years in the making, Grand Theft Auto 6 is tipped to be the biggest video game launch of the year, if not the decade.
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Aussies to skip work for GTA 6 as bosses brace for sickie spike
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Sydney healthcare worker Josh is taking two weeks of leave around the release of Grand Theft Auto VI in late November, and says he's "not ashamed" he will be spending "the majority of it" playing the highly anticipated video game.
"My colleagues are all aware. It's funny, some have said they're jealous that they didn't think to do the same – I think a few others think it's ridiculous," he told Information Age.
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