Marathon Weekend 2027

[The Expert]

Since most work gets done over Zoom, Teams, and email these days, being “around” from Disney seems totally workable. You’ll be back to your resort and available well before any of your team get to the office.

This! I'm also in a very small department and every role is critical. When I did almost-Dopey to Dumbo the year the DL races came back, I went directly from Orlando to Anaheim and was away from home for almost two full weeks. I took my work laptop and was able to keep up on everything, taking only five total days of PTO over that whole period -- and two of those were for travel. I stayed on the race wakeup schedule and was even able to do quite a bit of park time. I made clear that I was "on call" if something came up on those working days, joined a few random calls from my phone, and had my laptop in the car just in case. It worked out really well.

 

[jrsharp21]

I have run into this situation in the past. I am the director of a department of nine employees and have about fifty others in the field that my team oversees in a way. Being that it's accounting, MW always falls during our year end close. I always register assuming it's going to be no problem if I go and work from the resort. One of my co-workers, manager in a different department but rolls up into the same boss, decided he wanted to start doing MW. One year our boss pretty much told us that he didn't think it was a good idea we were both gone for year end. He also said that in years past it was okay, but not sure it would be okay going forward. I pretty much told him that if that was the case, he would be searching for a new director. LOL. So essentially I am working from the resort the first couple of days each year. Heck, one year I worked outside Starbucks at Disney Springs, out by the water. LOL. I usually will work half day in the morning and then head to the parks, but answer emails while waiting in line for rides.

 

[Disneyhanna]

My job is remote and I use company provided internet at home, which is pretty slow, like 25mbps. When I worked at Disney over marathon weekend the wifi speeds in my room were like 150+ mbps for both upload and download. Files that take me a minute to save at home took a few seconds to save! I told my boss I should just work at Disney going forward!