Eyas Group Reviews

I worked in the Eyas kindergarten, which is a part of the Rise company, as a foreign teacher for less than a year. The teachers’ daily routine consists of 30 min of teaching English during the circle time, feeding children, changing diapers, entertaining, putting kids to sleep, cleaning the room (toilets, mapping the floor, washing all toys at the end of each week), writing reports and many nonsense forms, preparation of teaching materials etc. Basically, it’s a VIP babysitting with a little bit of teaching. Management likes to organize urgent meetings after the working time, and these additional hours are not paid. In general, work is very exhausting, but the worse thing about this company is its management. There are 11 leaders without concrete job description for 8 groups. As a result, there is no effective communication with the management. If you address something to any leader, in most of the cases there will be no answer. Unless there’re some additional tasks for you that are communicated through the head teacher. The work contract is very vague and many things are not stated there. For instance, if an employee takes a day off for whatever reason, he’s not only losing salary for that day, but the company also deducts salary for the next working day. So all employees come to work even if they’re very ill, and diseases spread unbelievably fast to both kids and colleagues. Moreover, if you decide to terminate the contract, which is obligatory signed not less than for 2 years, the company will make you pay around one-month salary, so you either work last month for free or pay extra for your freedom. The company is also trying to keep some foreign employees’ documents, such as passport and foreign-expert certificate, and if you didn’t manage to get them back, you got into the situation of slavery. For this reason, some of my former colleagues are unable to leave the company.

1. Inconsistent management: most company policy documents are only available in Chinese, and there are a lot of last minutes notice for the occasional school events and activities. 2. Shorter paid holidays compared to that of some international schools and bilingual kindergartens – only two weeks off in summer, plus five days paid personal leaves.