[Mothy]

Having staff headhunted/poached out from a team is quite a different story from team members who go looking for new opportunities and using that to leverage a raise.

As an employer, if one of my team came to me and said he had been approached by xxx offering 18% more to go work for them, I'd look into it and review the rates we pay compared to the market etc. If it was a valuable member, I'd do what I could to keep them. Happy employees don't often go looking.

However, if they did it off their own bat, then I'd wish them well and send them on their way. Chances are that the reason they were not happy was not the pay level - it just made it more bearable.

Best of luck - I hope it works out for you.

Tim