8 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Accept A Counter Offer

Sometimes, in desperation, companies will resort to making counter offers when one of their employees resign. While this may seem flattering at the time history shows that approximately nine out of ten people who accept counter offers end up leaving the company within six months anyway. If you are confronted with a counter offer when you resign make sure you do the right thing by your employer and more importantly yourself consider the following:

1. You should not have to threaten to resign to get what you are worth.
2. Any situation in which an employee is forced to get an outside offer before the present employer will suggest a raise, promotion or better working conditions is suspect.
3. No matter what the company says when making its counter offer, having once demonstrated a lack of loyalty (for whatever reason) you will lose your status as a “team player” and your place in the inner circle.
4. A counter-offer is an insult to your intelligence – knowing you were bought.
5. Your reasons for considering a change will repeat themselves – even if you accept a counter offer. Conditions are just made a bit more tolerable in the short term because of the raise, promotion or promises made to keep you.
6. Counter offers are only made in response to a threat to quit. Will you have to solicit an offer and threaten to quit every time you deserve better working conditions?
7. Decent and well-managed companies don’t make counter offers – ever! Their policies are fair and equitable. They will not be subjected to “counter-offer coercion”.
8. Counter offers are usually nothing more than stall devices to give your employer time to replace you.