It’s also possible that Disney is using the pandemic as an excuse to cut some of the services that cost the company money, but didn’t necessarily impact whether a guest chose to stay on-site. People continue to fill the available resorts as we speak, even with no Extra Magic Hours or FastPass+ perks, among others. Paid FastPass+ was always in the cards and Disney has wanted to eliminate Extra Magic Hours for years. While we can blame many of the terminations on a lack of demand or limited Park capacities, a lot of the consolidations that we’re currently seeing and upcoming restructuring are all part of the cost-cutting that Disney has been undertaking for years. We blamed it on Shanghai cost overruns for a while. That was never really true. We’re blaming it on COVID now. At some point, it will come out that the disease wasn’t to blame for many of the layoffs either. Disney eliminating the jobs of people who have worked for the company for 20+ years under the guise of an economic downturn is a solid scapegoat. It provides the cover you need to get rid of just about anyone. A couple of posts ago, we highlighted the termination of Ms. Jenn Fickley-Baker, who holds a Ph.D. and has worked for the company for 19 years, basically building the Parks Blog into what it is today during its formative years. COVID is the perfect excuse to get rid of her and replace her with someone who will do basically the same job for half the money.
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