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.

2. Find mismatched priorities between parties

Negotiations are best done when both parties feel like their needs are being met. human emotion plays a big role in negotiations. It’s not all hard calculations. Sometimes people will be more stingy simply because they think you’re awful.

1. Don’t go in guns blazing

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.

3. Be prepared

The ‘great resignation’ that came with the Covid pandemic has left many employees in a privileged situation. Shop around, chances are you’ll find someone desperate for help and willing to pay more than your current employer. Then you can politely ask your employer to match/beat those offers.

3 Tips For Negotiating For Better Benefits/Pay At Work.

This tips show basic strategies to employ during negotiations at work.

Starting your first job can be a quite tricky experience, almost like the training wheels came off from your bike halfway through your journey, you are expected to miraculously know things like salary negotiations, pension calculations, interview skills, insurance many of which school did not prepare you for. Employee benefits are one of those things…

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