Employee Benefits: A Not-So Complete Guide To Getting What you Want

When negotiating an employment situation, what do you care about most? Pay raise? More vacation? More autonomy? Remote work? Now think about your employer and what they care about most. Things, where you care a lot less compared to your employer and vice versa, are where you can make everyone happier. Everything is negotiable.

The more prepared you can be understanding the positions and motivations of all counterparties the better. The more independent data you can bring to support your reasoning (e.g., industry pay comps, research on the tie between worker efficiency and workplace comfort, competitor actions, hard data as well as qualitative reviews showing your impact) the more convincing you’ll be.