Deel, the $12 billion HR software company, has filed a legal action in the United States accusing its rival Rippling of a “carefully coordinated espionage campaign”. Rippling has previously accused Deel in the Irish courts of employing a “spy” in its Dublin office to feed its senior team with confidential corporate intelligence. This “spy”, according to a Rippling affidavit, locked himself in the bathroom when confronted. The person later destroyed his phone with an axe despite a court order telling him not to do so. Rippling, which also makes HR software, was valued at $16.8 billion last month. Deel has…

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