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Counter-offers: why accepting one rarely keeps you there

More money fixes the salary. It seldom fixes the reason you began looking.

Chloe Garside
Consultant

Go back to why you started looking

Most people start looking for reasons that have little to do with pay: progression, their manager, the work itself. A counter-offer changes the figure and nothing more.

What tends to happen next

Your employer now knows you were ready to go. That changes the relationship, and plenty of people who accept are looking again within a year.

When it can be worth it

If the counter-offer brings a genuine change of role or reporting line, in writing, it deserves proper thought.

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