The US Virgin Islands are an unusually low-friction place for an American to work from for a week or two: no passport, no currency to convert, no international phone plan, US mail and US banks. What's left to figure out is the internet, the clock, and your own discipline.
The internet is the part people worry about
Both of our places run Starlink, which is what changed remote work here. Video calls hold up. You should still do the thing everyone should do on the road — have your phone's hotspot as a backup and don't schedule the single most important call of the quarter for your first morning.
The clock is the part that actually matters
The USVI is on Atlantic Standard Time year-round and doesn't observe daylight saving. So for half the year you're one hour ahead of the US east coast and for the other half you're the same. Either way you are ahead of everybody west of you, which is the whole trick: an 8 a.m. start here clears most of your east-coast morning before anyone in California is awake.
That's what makes a half-day week work. Front-load calls, finish by early afternoon, and the best part of the day is still in front of you.
Where to sit
At the Sapphire Beach condo the honest answer is the kitchen table with the doors open, because the deck is too bright for a screen most of the day and you will not get anything done facing the water. Coffee at the table, work until two, then you're on the sand in the time it takes to find your sunglasses.
Up at Mahogany Seaview it's the opposite problem and a better one: covered deck, constant trade-wind breeze, and a view big enough that you'll look up too often. The hillside also means you're committed — nothing is a walk from there, so the workday doesn't get interrupted by the beach being fifty steps away. Some people need that.
The schedule that works
Wake early, because you will anyway. Work the morning. Eat lunch at the villa rather than going out, which protects the afternoon. Stop at two. Swim, nap, read, and let dinner be the event — cook in with what you picked up on the grocery run, or go out somewhere on the east end.
Do that five days running and you've had both a work week and a vacation, which is not usually how this goes.
What it isn't
It's not cheaper than being home — groceries and utilities here are island-priced. And it doesn't work at all if your job is a 4 p.m. Pacific standing meeting. Check that before you book, not after.
Longer stays usually price better than a week. Open dates for both places are on the deals page.