Correction: Two Weeks Notice Email Template Professional
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Evolang
- Topic
- Email Templates
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 19 July 2026
The exact change
Research by Steve Dalton at Duke University and others suggests that roughly 80 percent of employees who accept counter-offers leave within 12 months anyway. [...] Harvard Business Review. How to Quit Your Job Without Burning Bridges. https://hbr.org/2016/05/how-to-quit-your-job-without-burning-bridges [...] "The shortest path between two people in business is a clear, brief, honest message. Anything longer is usually self-protective, not informative." Josh Bernoff, Writing Without Bullshit [...] "The medium is the message. A resignation delivered only by email, when a conversation was possible, itself tells your manager something about how you experienced the relationship." Ann Handley, Everybody Writes
Widely cited industry estimates suggest that a large majority of employees who accept counter-offers leave within 12 months anyway. [...] Harvard Business Review. How to Quit Your Job: An HBR Guide. https://hbr.org/2021/08/how-to-quit-your-job-an-hbr-guide [...] The shortest path between two people in business is a clear, brief, honest message. Anything longer is usually self-protective, not informative. [...] The medium is the message. A resignation delivered only by email, when a conversation was possible, itself tells your manager something about how you experienced the relationship.
Why this is better
The 'roughly 80 percent leave within 12 months' counter-offer statistic is a widely circulated but undocumented industry claim with no traceable original research behind it, and it is not attributable; The cited HBR URL (hbr.org/2016/05/how-to-quit-your-job-without-burning-bridges) returns a 404. The real HBR article on this topic is 'How to Quit Your Job: An HBR Guide' at hbr.org/2021/08/how-to-qui; Fabricated quote falsely attributed to Josh Bernoff's book 'Writing Without Bullshit.' No record of this quote exists; invented attribution using a real author's name.; Fabricated quote falsely attributed to Ann Handley's book 'Everybody Writes.' No record of this quote exists; invented attribution using a real author's name.
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