TEN REASONS FOR NOT ACCEPTING A COUNTEROFFER
- What type of company do you work for if you have to threaten to resign before they give you what you are worth?
- From where is the money for the counteroffer coming? Is it your next raise, early? (Most companies have strict wage and salary guidelines that must be followed.)
- Your company may immediately start looking for a new person at a lower salary.
- You have now made your employer aware that you are unhappy. From this day on, your loyalty will always be in question.
- When promotion time comes around, your employer will remember who was loyal, and who wasn’t.
- When times get tough, your employer will begin the cutback with you.
- The same circumstances that now cause you to consider a change will repeat themselves in the future, even if you accept a counteroffer, and they promise changes.
- Statistics show that if you accept a counteroffer, the probability of voluntarily leaving in six (6) months or being let go within one (1) year is extremely high… approaching 100%!
- Accepting a counteroffer is an insult to your intelligence and a blow to your personal pride, knowing that you were bought.
- Once the word gets out, the relationship that you now enjoy with your co workers will never be the same. You will lose the personal satisfaction of peer group acceptance.