This is an interesting little story. Recruitment experts Executives have crunched some data, and apparently, the majority of those getting a PlayStation 5 have taken time off work to celebrate the launch.
We wouldn't take this all too seriously, as the data is based on a thread from the PS5 subreddit, but this is still a neat statistic. According to Executives, 66 per cent of PS5 fans have planned at least a day's holiday for the next-gen console's arrival. The website reports that some are taking off weeks from work in order to spend time with the PS5.
About 31 per cent opted not to skip work on PS5's launch day, while a minority of just two per cent say they'll be pulling a sickie. Again, the source of these stats is nearly 500 fans on the subreddit, so we're sure things are skewed towards hardcore fans in this case. Most people who will get a PS5 will probably be working on the 12th / 19th November, but it seems there are plenty of early adopters who won't let their jobs get in the way.
Anyway, it's got us curious. Have you booked a day off, or maybe more, for PS5's launch? Vote in our poll, and give us your thoughts in the comments section below.
[source executives.co.uk]
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Got Thursday/Friday off but might cancel Thursday now.
Gone to check my pre order and Game have changed my delivery from DPD Pre 12pm to Royal Mail first class without telling me or refunding me the extra delivery I chose to pay for.
My post has been unreliable recently so not expecting to get it at launch now.
Edit:If anyone else ordered with same option I’d suggest checking your orders from game as it seems to have happened to few others when I look on Twitter.
Yes this PS5 fan has booked the week off afterwards too.
I'm picking my console up Thursday morning, then going to work for 10 hours. Gonna be a slow day!
I'm super busy at work so i will have to wait till Thursday night to play on it. But at least we have jobs as some poor people are going through hell with this Covid ruining their jobs.
Where's the "I'm a university student and therefore don't have to take a week off" option?
Got Thursday and Friday off ☺
4 day weekend for me 😀
Still 5 years to go for me to wait for White PS5 Slim.
@Total_Weirdo kinda makes you feel bad getting a new toy when alot of people are struggling to make ends meet!
Yes I got a few days off at launch and then another full week off the next week after.
I'm just wondering why PushSquare is calling every one a PS5 fan though haha.
I mean, sure I could say I'm a PS fan in that I love gaming on PlayStation (from a user point of view) but a PS5 Fan? A bit weird given most people dont even have it yet.
Where's "I'm medically unfit to work"? Feels like there should at least be a "I wouldn't have been working anyway for whatever reason" option for the multitude of reasons people have stated so far?
Not even sure when I'll get a ps5. Orders go live on launch day (on the 19th) in my country. If I'm lucky, I'll order one and, when it arrives, I'll see how much time I have to play. Yay...
@Total_Weirdo Always nice to read such comments. Really grateful to have a job, too!
Yeah, would love to, but I won't get mine, even though it was preordered on the first day. Sucks to live in a small, irrelevant country. Maybe somewhere around February.
I have an early ish finish on the Thursday and then off for a week 😀
I get so much vacation time that I am at a point where I have banked everything I can, so I need to burn through 24 vacation days each year or lose them. I have not secured a PS5 pre-order, but I am planning on taking a day or two off once I actually find one. Here is hoping I have some luck on launch day.
I actually took 1 week and two days (19th and 20th) 😅
I'm super hyped! It will be the best week of 2020 no doubt
I’ve gone for Friday off as don’t know when will turn up
@Ichiban Dont leave it in your car.
Hi there fellow gamers. I´ve got 3 and a half days(since since I have to do some traveling on friday), but basicaly Thursday and the whole weekend it´s going to be me, myself and my (Gollum´s voice)preeeeecious PS5. Girls gonna have to wait 😜
Cheers, stay safe out there and happy gaming to us all
Haven't taken any immediate time off for the PS5 arriving next week, but taken holiday for the entire December month until the 4th Jan.
So lots of time to play Miles Morales, Spiderman Remastered in New Game +, Planet Coaster and the slew of PS4/VR games I wan't to replay in BC mode like Until Dawn, Horizon and Blood & Truth
Not me, though I did book book Friday 20th November off to play lots of Cyberpunk 2077
To be fair, I did have leave booked when the Switch came out, but that is the only console I brought on launch. So I probably would have been on leave now if I had pre-ordered but I will wait until it is cheaper/Pro model gets announced. When I do finally buy it, I probably will book leave then. =P
Brutal....
https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/6132608/woman-reduces-boyfriend-tears-brutal-playstation-5-prank/
hope my PS5 fans are not taking the day off, it'll overheat
I've got the Friday off, figured I'd let everything update/install on the day, maybe play some Astro Bot in the evening and then spend an entire day with Demon's Souls on the 20th. Can't wait!
Self employed and things are currently quiet so I'm taking some time for myself before the inevitable crimbo rush begins.
@lacerz Jesus, The Sun needs to learn about brevity... Brutal but that re-telling went on entirely too long.
Yea got Thursday and Friday off as well as the whole week after so a lot of gaming time for me can't wait, just over a week to go. I'm just hoping it arrives on Thursday tbh got it from Amazon so should be good, if not then complaint going in and some free stuff hopefully lol. Always complain as I have prime and if it doesn't arrive I always get some free prime months and some money off, especially if I have booked a day off work for it. I remember ordering a game for release and had booked a day off work it didn't arrive complained saying I had booked time from work to play, ended up getting the game free and 3months of prime.
I'll be furious if my PS5 fan takes the first week off! The cooling can't be that good, right? 🤭
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi ah, darn! You beat me to the (very week) punch!
Ironically I am off work the week PS5 comes out, but I was unable to preorder one!
I am off on Fridays, so I took Thursday off and don't have to be back to work until next Monday!
Booked off Thur/Fri but haven't been able to pre-order so ill be sitting in a dark room looking out the window with a single tear on cheek
I have the dat booked off but then my work have shut out the 3 shifts for Thursday and Friday so 4 day weekend that means me and 2 other people from my line will have 3 of us enjoying it that day.
@Enuo Right? I have to go to Bestbuy to get some games I preordered, but have to pick the console up from Gamestop. Going to be packing that day for sure!
Boris has given most people time off to play it in England, I had the week booked off anyway but now I'm on Furlough until December so I'll have plenty of time
@B-I-G-DEVIL I'm disgruntled as you are i git mine with royal mail on preorder now it says yodel 😟
The £10 doesn't reflect the changes i would have rather had royal mail to yodel.
I voted in the poll that I’ve book the week off but in reality I’m furloughed until the new year.
I’ll be at work. Picking up my ps5 disc edition from Best Buy on the way in and my copies of AC Valhalla and Demon’s Souls will be delivered to my job that day. I’ll just enjoy what I can that night but I have the whole weekend to myself, so I’ll just enjoy in full then
Yup took Thursday and Friday my boss looked at me like I was nuts and was like he’s not gonna approve that I said either way I’m not coming so save us both the headache 🤷🏾♂️
@hoffa007 my concern is tracking at the moment I’m not able to track. I’ve had hospital letters arriving over a week late which was sent first class so hopefully I’m wrong with my concerns but yes Yodel / Hermes or any them I can’t stand
@hoffa007 they'll probably leave it in a hedge if you have one!
I’m missing the option: I don’t have to take a week off because of a lockdown, hence I even can’t go to one.
Working from home, but even if I wasn't I'd book off. Simply because I don't want a large box sitting in my porch all day!
@B-I-G-DEVIL I'm with you, they may end up giving you tracking info the day before you never know although it doesn't say it for the amount I assume it will end up being trackable.
Hopefully that is the case with your hospital letters arriving late etc.
@MightyDemon82 haha yeah great. That wouldn't surprise me at all if they did that I will listen out for the door and check outside every so often tbh.
@B-I-G-DEVIL Same issue with with mine was DPD pre 12 and now says Free Royal Mail 1st but with the DPD pre 12 price.
@InvaderJim it’s lack of communication that annoys me most about it. Just done it on the sly
How sad does anyone have to be to get days off work just to get a console that will be around for years to come?
@B-I-G-DEVIL Yea and almost impossible to get hold of them.
I am. Booked 19/20th off. Don't work weekends anyway. Off the 23rd to 27th, again, not working the following weekend. Gonna be good.
I resigned from my job to go back to school in Jan for my Masters Degree so I have all the free time a man could want for the next 2 months.
For me 2 tings go against taking a day off for PS5's launch:
I already got AC Valhalla on PC, given the uncertainty of the PS5 stocks, so I'm good for a while.
And if there's not a really good gaming reason, I prefer to keep my "off" days for getting out of the city.
@Mpquikster all my colleagues know I'm taking it off for PS5 some are in fact jealous!
@Shinnok789 that's the great thing about the lineup though, there is something for everyone. I myself will be getting Demon's Souls, Spider-man Miles Morales and Bugsnax on PS+. Not forgetting of course Astro's Playroom which every lucky PS5 adopter gets out the box 😁
I booked the wrong day. Yes, I am a moron. Although i do work from home (even before this mess occured) so its fair to say productivity will probably take a hit...
With tomorrow being a holiday here in Canada to honor our vets for Remembrance day I'd love to take the rest of the week off with my PS5, but I do not yet have one secured Hoping to get one on launch day ... somehow .. ugh. First world problems eh!
Yes, I've booked the week off as any real gamer would.
Nope, i took the Monday after off. No guarantees what time Amazon will deliver my console on launch day. I actually have the Friday off but i'll be looking after my kids, so there will be zero opportunities to play
Yep and don't go back until the first of December. Booked it with Cyberpunk in mind (3rd hol it's missed) but thankfully the PS5 was the same date so it's still good.
I've got the Thursday and Friday off. Picking mine up at 8am here in Sydney and then splitting time between setting it up and a bathroom reno!
Two weeks off for me with 9 games to play!
I planned to take 2 days off. Launch day and the day after. Still gutted there will be no real launch day, for anyone who didn t pre-order or wants to buy from big companies. Also a little bit disappointed that there still pretending there s gonna be a launch day, when this already take place in Sep + Oct. Anyhow, have fun and enjoy to anyone who expects a shipment or isn t in lockdown at the time. Take care + stay well!
Thursday and Friday off for me too
Plus Saturday and Sunday, since I am giving my partner my PS4 Pro I have been given the allowance of acting like a kid again for the entire 4x days locked away doing nothing but, eating, drinking, and playing the PS5. No chores, just 4x days of laziness. I'm sure there is going to be a catch and I will only find out what the catch is afterwards.
Funnily enough the Ps5 just happens to release on my rolling day off next week and then the following week I had already booked a year ago.Just hope Base.com deliver to me on time.
I’ve only had one game arrive on release date since the pandemic started, so my choice is.
•I think I’ll be lucky if the ps5 even shows up on Friday.
The PSVR adaptor showed up today so I guess I have that for some next gen feel.
No use in taking a Day off if it was sold out.
@TwomanybuttonS Great to hear the PSVR camera adapters are going out. Which country is this in?
@Scubafinch Canada, Received a shipping email for the adapter from sony yesterday, So I was kind of surprised to see it in my mailbox today.
I got Thursday and Friday off for it I also have Veterans day off, so that's nice too.
@TwomanybuttonS That's great. I'm keen to see if there is any improvement to existing PSVR titles. I saw that London Studios has patched Blood and Truth to up resolution and texture quality, hopefully more devs will follow (looking at you EA Motive).
Dang I wonder how many people that took time off are now getting these emails from Target and and Walmart saying their order will likely be delayed 😒
Didnt buy a PS5 but still I would never take a day off for the launch of a console or game. Too many uncertainties and you would just end up with a wasted day off. I can imagine getting superhyped and then having to sit through a 12hr system update process
I have launch day off, as well as Friday, but my console isn't even shipping until launch day; my bet is it arrives Saturday evening. I start a block of nine straight days of work on Saturday night, meaning I won't get to do anything more than set the console up, if that. Who knows, my PS5 might not even arrive until Monday. Yeah, sucks to be me. lol
I've booked the Thursday and Friday off now hurry up next week!!
mine time off starts today and im not back to work till Saturday =)
@Flurpsel if that was the case, id then take my ass to the local watering hole and get some wings XD
@Papasears man, I envy you if your local bars are still open nowadays
Well Im getting AC Valhalla and Spiderman delivered today. And pulse headset tomorrow. Going to be a long week waiting. Might just wear the headset for a week and pretend I'm playing Spiderman haha. Can't wait now getting really hyped for it. Did buy dirt 5 the other day played a bit it's pretty good, will be able to compare how much better the ps5 version is. Looks like a really easy platinum too.
@deathaxe It could be worse: we don't know enough about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis to know what the risk factors are for me, so I'm on my own.
@deathaxe yeah to be honest that's the main reason right now why I wouldn't buy one. 600-somehting GB is just not enough to be practical. Funny how they introduced a 'multiple quick resume' option when you can barely fit 4 games on it
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