{"id":102509,"date":"2026-02-19T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/?p=102509"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:02:32","slug":"counteroffers-salary-policy-decision-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/blog-rrhh\/contraofertas-politica-salarial-decision-bajo-presion\/","title":{"rendered":"Counteroffers: Retention strategy or ticking time bomb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Juan Rodr\u00edguez Gago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Tuesday we finished the subject of wage policy in the <strong>EIP International Business School<\/strong> with this case on the table.<br><br>They make an offer to your most profitable collaborator.<br>And you decide within 24 hours.<br><br>Counteroffers.<br>Because losing her \u201cwould be a disaster.\u201d.<br><br>The problem is not that he&#039;s leaving.<br>Your salary policy has just blown up.<br><br>If you match or exceed the offer, you have sent an internal message:<br>The market decides how much people are worth here. Not you.<br><br>If you do nothing, you also send another one:<br>You are profitable, but replaceable.<br><br>Most people make decisions under pressure, without considering three basic things:<br>\u2013 Whether you were paying in the market or outside of it.<br>\u2013 Do you have a clear policy or do you improvise based on fear?.<br>\u2013 What will happen when the next person receives another offer?.<br><br>The cost is not the salary.<br>It&#039;s about consistency.<br><br>Because when the team understands that an external offer is enough to renegotiate, you are no longer managing people.<br><br>You manage auctions. And that doesn&#039;t scale.<br><br>If you want a Master&#039;s program where you truly learn and are taught about real-world issues, come to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/programs\/master-human-resources-hr-online\/\">EI<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/eip-international-business-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>P International Business School<\/strong><\/a><br><br>I work with companies that want to stop making decisions this way.<br>If this scenario seems familiar to you, you probably already know why.<br><br><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Rodr\u00edguez Gago analyzes a practical case study on salary policy. Learn what to do when your most profitable employee is offered double their salary and how to prevent your internal strategy from falling apart. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":4343,"featured_media":102510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-rrhh","category-blog-gestion-de-recursos-humanos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}