The Cons of a Counter Offer

Case scenario: After handing in notice of your intention to leave for a better position, your current employer has counter offered. You are naturally flattered to be in demand but what are the implications of accepting the counter offer?

Think about the following very carefully:-

• No matter what you may be told, your loyalty to your company will forever be in question. You will always be suspected of looking for other employment and your management will always doubt your position in the long term picture.
• Any promised changes in your employment status to prevent you from leaving do not address the real issues for your resignation. If your employer was truly concerned with these issues they would have been addressed before you were forced to resign.
• If they are offering you more money, did they not value you sufficiently before hand to have given you a pay increase?

Generally speaking, well managed companies do not make counter offers. They have established policies and compensation packages that are fair and equitable and do not wait for 'counter offer coercion' to do what is right for their employees.

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