counter offer

head_above_water

I listened to advice on here a week ago about handing in my notice after a verbal offer. the written offer came within a few days so i handed my notice in on. I had an immediate counter offer of a £2,000 pay rise and a lower workload. i was shocked and flattered so I told them i would think it over . I don't think i will accept as the root causes for me leaving are the same. Has anyone ever stayed in a job after a counter offer and not regretted it?

newbie1980

head_above_water wrote: »

I listened to advice on here a week ago about handing in my notice after a verbal offer. the written offer came within a few days so i handed my notice in on. I had an immediate counter offer of a £2,000 pay rise and a lower workload. i was shocked and flattered so I told them i would think it over . I don't think i will accept as the root causes for me leaving are the same. Has anyone ever stayed in a job after a counter offer and not regretted it?

i think its down to the person

once your mind has decided though i would have thought it wouldnt be long until you want to go again if you did stay

BorisThomson

Can they guarantee the lower workload? That's not something you can hold them to, I'd be very careful accepting something so uncertain.

Timpu

head_above_water wrote: »

I listened to advice on here a week ago about handing in my notice after a verbal offer. the written offer came within a few days so i handed my notice in on. I had an immediate counter offer of a £2,000 pay rise and a lower workload. i was shocked and flattered so I told them i would think it over . I don't think i will accept as the root causes for me leaving are the same. Has anyone ever stayed in a job after a counter offer and not regretted it?

Hopefully someone who has stayed will reply soon.

I've had a boss try to counter offer but did not entertain it for two reasons. One was I needed to move to advance my career. The other was that I'd effectively shown I wasn't interested in the role anymore and questioned how long before I was managed out at a time to suit my boss.

74jax

I was offered more money to stay but I had asked for this before I decided to move and they said no. So to me offering after I had received more elsewhere seemed (to me) to be a bigger kick than if they had stuck to 'no'.

paddyrg

Move. All the other factors are the same plus they now know you're looking to leave and they probably feel a little embittered/miffed at you.

TELLIT01

As the root causes for wanting to leave are unchanged it would make no sense to accept the payrise and stay. Once the decision has been made that you wish to leave it's rare for a payrise alone to be sufficient to provide a long term solution.

Just stay on friendly terms with your current employer. Bridge burning isn't a good idea either.

V2-Schneider

Although I don't know your financial circumstances, the salary rise seems relatively immaterial. How would your monthly take home, and as a result your living standards, be affected by a meagre net increase? This might be enhanced somewhat through a lower workload, although it's likely that the sharp rise in managerial expectations for you should you stay would counterbalance that. Cynically, you might point out that the lower workload is only provided to offload your responsibilities to other colleagues in lieu of your delayed departure - one that senior management might be expecting considering that the statistics suggest that over 50% of employees who accept counter offers tend to be active on the job hunt within two months.

So, I cannot speak from experience - but I think it would be an odd one to stay after accepting a new offer from another company.

head_above_water

V2-Schneider wrote: »

Although I don't know your financial circumstances, the salary rise seems relatively immaterial. How would your monthly take home, and as a result your living standards, be affected by a meagre net increase? This might be enhanced somewhat through a lower workload, although it's likely that the sharp rise in managerial expectations for you should you stay would counterbalance that. Cynically, you might point out that the lower workload is only provided to offload your responsibilities to other colleagues in lieu of your delayed departure - one that senior management might be expecting considering that the statistics suggest that over 50% of employees who accept counter offers tend to be active on the job hunt within two months.

So, I cannot speak from experience - but I think it would be an odd one to stay after accepting a new offer from another company.

Thanks everyone, I think that the fact that they wanted me stay so badly and offered me the rise swayed me for a while but i am going to leave

motorguy

paddyrg wrote: »

Move. All the other factors are the same plus they now know you're looking to leave and they probably feel a little embittered/miffed at you.

+1

Exactly that. You've made the decision to go, went to the trouble of looking for and getting another job role, so i'd be just going.

The underlyng issues are still there and the lesser responsibilities might be the case in the short term but once you agree to stay they'll quickly forget it.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

What does £2,000 mean to you? If it's a £20K job then that might be significant, if it's a £200K job it's meaningless.