English 1 reviews

Teachers work split shift (Afternoon-Night) and work long hours (9 hours) so the work-life balance is terrible. The pay is not great for the amount of hours required to work. Which is okayish for foreign staff if you're planning on staying in China but it's hard to save even a decent amount of money if you ever want to return to your home country. Local Teachers get paid even less than foreign teachers. Which is ridiculous considering the high requirements for their local teachers. There is very little on-going support for the foreign teaching staff. Very high teacher turnover rate Not very much paid-holiday time There is WAY too much focus on sales and customer satisfaction. They pretty much force you to constantly be contact with students in and out of the center Management is not very appreciative of the work you do unless you teach and do EVERYTHING else exactly as they tell you. If you have your own way of doing things or are not naturally a social person they pretty much treat you like a problem they can't wait to get rid of. They never have students take any responsibility for their own learning, everything is dependent on sales staff, course consultants, and teachers. Overall, only teachers who want to get their foot in the door should teach with EF and I'd never recommend anyone teach there longer than 1-2 years maximum.

- Sales focused environment with little importance given to education - Tiny or zero compensation for large amounts of overtime - Lowest possible amount of holidays provided - Workers are financially punished for taking sick days or holidays - Stressful environment and overwork leading to unhappy staff and poor health - Poor salary - Poor management and exploitative franchise investors - Very high turnover