{"id":85,"date":"2026-08-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/counter-offers-why-most-people-who-accept-one-leave-anyway\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:41:38","slug":"counter-offers-why-most-people-who-accept-one-leave-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/counter-offers-why-most-people-who-accept-one-leave-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter-offers: why most people who accept one leave anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Remember why you started looking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people start looking for reasons that have nothing to do with pay: progression, management, the work itself. A counter-offer changes the number and nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What happens next<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your employer now knows you were ready to leave. That changes the relationship, and many people who accept find themselves looking again within a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When it can make sense<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the counter-offer comes with a real change in role or reporting line, in writing, it is worth considering properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pay rise fixes the salary. It rarely fixes the reason you started looking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-candidates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}