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EC English Language Centers

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worst company i've ever worked at - Anonymous employee EC English Language Centers Employee Review

1.0
Aug 30, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

it's a job that paid some bills

Cons

there is way too much workload for the given amount of pay. your work and efforts are never recognized because your managers will be very demanding and needy. Many of the coworkers are unreliable. Different departments often do not communicate well and don't get along.

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EC English Language Centers Response
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Dear Colleague Thank you for your feedback. I am sorry to hear that you feel it was the worst company you’ve worked at. It’s difficult to comment on your specific circumstances without knowing what your role was or where you worked. However, I can comment on the points you have raised. Firstly, workloads can be high – especially in the summer months when we’re at our busiest. We acknowledge that, and work hard to try and ensure our employees maintain a good work/life balance. Our pay scales are competitive within our industry, and we strive to maintain them as such. We disagree that our managers are overly demanding/needy or that our co-workers are unreliable. We pride ourselves on delivering the highest quality education to our students, and recognise that excellent delivery of service comes from looking after our people – a fact well understood by our managers and delivered on day-in day-out by our teams. Communication is always a challenge in a large, globally spread organisation, but we have a wide-ranging strategy that ensures we communicate well. As for how people get along, I think we have a very healthy work environment, which is backed up by our consistently high engagement scores. Thank you again for taking the time to share your views with us – should you wish to discuss anything further, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me directly. Julian Bell Global HR Director

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Very low pay for Boston, management not sensitive to teacher or student needs, director and HR enable bullying, manipulative, racially biased behavior from staff towards other staff and students. The company also misrepresents itself a bit to the students as a quality language school when really it's a tourist enterprise with a school attached.

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