These Are The 10 Biggest Mistakes Employers Make

From offering too much to offering too little, these are the traps employers fall into time and time again

What are the biggest mistakes employers make? I could write five columns on this, and come up with a different Top 10 in each. But let's pick a few:

1) Being too generous with your initial severance offer

In an era when employment lawyers advertise riches to every fired employee, few are willing to accept their employer's first severance offer. But too many employers, out of a fear of becoming embroiled in litigation, quickly give in to demands for a better package, even if their first offer was reasonable. To avoid this trap, employers should make a lower first offer so as to leave themselves room to negotiate.