EF (Education First) reviews

Extremely low salary for an incredibly large work load. Employees are generally over worked and have an incredible amount of work for such a low salary. It is expected that you work outside of 40 hours a week and if you don't, management passes judgement via snide comments. Generally there is a bit of gender inequality as upper management is dominant males who clearly connect better with other men. Entry level staff is very female dominant, so it is obvious when upper management only address the few men on the team. Women often feel disregarded and were recently vocal about this in a company survey, however, it is important to note this response was shot down quickly by a male higher-up in a room full of women. The survey was never discussed with a third party or anyone in HR, so there was no safe environment to discuss the responses; this made it clear to all employees that management does not care about their staff's opinions. High turnover and ZERO job security - they are quick to fire. Management leads by intimidation (via gossip and/or lack of communication in genera and by firing your peers) not by example. Upper/middle management is not respected as a result so there is no "role model" and employees don't strive to improve.

- No diversity as a result of non-inclusive hiring practices - If you've got a lot of education, don't waste your time here. Education is not leveraged here, it is hard to feel like you add value because the tasks you do have are very procedural and even if you go above and beyond, upper management will strip you of your experiences when looking at career growth. They will say things like, you have to find your own replacement. My apologies but when you raise the bar where it's never been raised, this becomes impossible even though "Nothing is Impossible" is a core value. - Management is non-existent and the same people get promoted. After 3 years and multiple complaints, it took EF 3 years to change my direct manager. One manager in particular, as we let go of over 50 people, got promoted 3 times into 3 different managerial positions. Then you find yourself having to applaud upper management's decisions when you don't feel good about them. - If you're a Yes Man, this is the place for you. EF rewards a culture of sameness by its standards; and gets uncomfortable by people who are movers and shakers. EF hires people based on how well they can assimilate to internal culture. EF does not keep its most passionate workers and doesn't understand that people who are passionate about education and travel, will seek the same opportunities but at a competitor. - Pay is well below average. American tour consultants get paid 55,000USD to start and in Canada, it's 37,000. - Human Resources need to revamp EVERYONE who works in this department. Some issues that are illegal in nature were brought up to HR and employees were told to look the other way. If you have self-respect and want to work in a healthy environment, this may cause issues. - If you are francophone, they will segregate you from the anglophone consultants. They divide everyone and dissolved the only francophone team they had and as a result lost all francophone tour consultants - There is no continuity regarding student and teacher success. Stop paying out for useless things and pay your people more, spend less on useless luxuries.