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Gaba Corporation

Is this your company?

DO NOT WORK HERE!....unless you're a student on a working holiday. - Anonymous employee Gaba Corporation Employee Review

1.0
15 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great coworkers who become friends. Fun students/ clients. You can choose your own schedule. (biggest pro if you like to travel around Japan or Asia)

Cons

Unbelievably stingy company who intentionally mistreats it's employees in order to make a profit. Unpaid work if you don't finish your required duties in the allotted 40 minute lesson time. A very dysfunctional evaluation system which could get you fired. No paid holidays, no paid health insurance. You can get sponsored for a visa but then they own you. Some students have issues (as lightly as I could put that one) Impossible to get a raise. Micro managing. VERY UNSTABLE! Basically, low pay for a lot of work.

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Gaba Corporation Response
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Hi there, thanks for the review! I'm sorry you didn't enjoy your time at Gaba as most do, but there seem to be a number of factual inaccuracies in what you wrote, so it might be best to correct the a couple of them in case others get the wrong impression. Gaba Instructors are not employees of Gaba, they are freelance Independent Contractors - this affords the schedule flexibility you mention. We stress this fact constantly in our recruiting process, and the fact that Instructors need to enrol themselves in the government National Health Insurance system is clearly covered also. As for pay increases, currently 50% of our Instructors have increased their "belt" level and are being paid over the starting rate - it is competitive and performance based though and I appreciate it might be frustrating if you didn't manage to achieve this in your time with us. In terms of pay, the position can be very lucrative compared to comparable ones, but is performance based. Best of luck with your next position!

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Cons

Because this school has somehow passed itself off as a place for independent contractors, it is able to flout all kinds of labor laws. As a result... - The pay is abysmal compared to other schools. - They provide no benefits or support. - They exploit their teachers shamelessly. Gaba gets away with paying people such low wages because they've developed a system that requires little to no experience or ability. Each lesson is a very precise step-by-step program that a person without any experience could follow. Essentially, they have turned ESL teaching into an unskilled position so they can pay much, much less than real schools do. This is why so many teachers at Gaba have no teaching experience and no bachelor's degree. I don't look down on people like that, but it's telling that Gaba targets them. Gaba also hires a lot of people from non-native English speaking countries. Of course, I think that would normally be great because those teachers are highly qualified and fluent in English. However, Gaba does not hire these people to be inclusive. In my opinion, they do it because they know they can pay such people less. It's exploitation, plain and simple. There are countless wonderful English schools in Japan. I have taught at quite a few and had great experiences at every one of them except for Gaba. Many schools will be happy to have you and will treat you well. Find those schools and stay away from Gaba.

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