Correction: Two Weeks Notice Email Template Professional
Corrected by Selen Ikbal Uslu · Content Quality Analyst and English Language Specialist
Selen Ikbal Uslu found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix.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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