Too Late, Too Little: The Psychology and Economics Behind Corporate Counteroffers That Almost Never Work
When an employee submits a resignation, a predictable corporate ritual often follows: the sudden discovery of budget that did not exist during the last salary review, the urgent conversation with HR, the counteroffer that arrives precisely when it is least likely to matter. IBN News examines why companies deploy last-minute compensation to retain departing talent, what these maneuvers reveal about the underlying state of the employment relationship, and why the data consistently shows that most