Technology
The Spying Scandal Rocking the World of HR Software
HR software maker Rippling accused Deel, a key rival, of hiring a staff member to serve as a mole. Things escalated from there.
On a cold March day in Dublin, Keith O’Brien looked down at his phone, raised an axe and smashed the device, again and again.
A day earlier—a day O’Brien would later describe in sworn testimony as one of the darkest of his life—a corporate lawyer had given him the legally dubious advice to throw the phone into one of Dublin’s canals. Instead he crushed it beyond recovery, gathered the shards and flushed them down the drain at his mother-in-law’s house.