{"id":889194,"date":"2026-10-20T19:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889194\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:54:30","slug":"us-economy-could-lose-1b-in-lost-productivity-due-to-gta-6s-release-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889194\/","title":{"rendered":"US economy could lose $1B in lost productivity due to GTA 6’s release: analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (WKRC) – The United States economy could lose up to a billion dollars in productivity due to the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, according to analysts.<\/p>\n

According to The New York Post, <\/a>citing a report from the International Business Times<\/a>, approximately 1.5 million Americans plan to take the day off from work for the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, which is set for release on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n

The report from The Times indicates that the United States could see an approximate $1 billion dip in output in a single day.<\/p>\n

Analyst Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Montalvo told the publication that his figure is an academic projection rather than an official forecast.<\/p>\n

Montalvo said he based the estimate on about 1.5 million absences and an average annual output of roughly $70,000 per U.S. worker, resulting in a short-term productivity decline of about 2%. Men ages 18 to 30 make up most of the absent workers, and the technology sector is expected to be hit hardest.<\/p>\n

The Times noted that the $1 billion estimate that the United States stands to lose almost exactly matches what the game’s publisher, Take-Two Interactive, stands to gain from the much-anticipated release.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal meanwhile reported <\/a>that the release of the game may cause a temporary \u201cwork blackout,\u201d with some companies even opting to build the date into end-of-year packages as a perk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (WKRC) – The United States economy could lose up to a billion dollars in productivity due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-889194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}