Making or accepting counter offers only ends well when the employee is inexperienced and/or confused as to why he is quitting. In any other case, you're only de

Making or accepting counter offers only ends well when the employee is inexperienced and/or confused as to why he is quitting. In any other case, you're only delaying the inevitable, and in most cases the short-term benefits of that delay will be overshadowed by the mid- and long-term consequences (less need to fix the real problems that led to the employee quitting, employee growing restless again quickly because it in fact was not just about the money, etc).