Palm Supposedly Rejected Employee Poaching Deal with Apple
Steve Jobs, Jon Rubinstein, Ed Colligan According to Bloomberg , former Palm CEO Ed Colligan rejected an offer by Steve Jobs to refrain from hiring each other’s employees. Similar allegations have been made regarding Apple and Google recently, though in that instance the policy was supposedly an informal and undocumented one, but with Palm there are “communications” involved. “We must do whatever we can to stop this,” said Steve Jobs on the issue of “poaching” employees, the practice of hiring away highly-capable individuals from one company to another.
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Palm Supposedly Rejected Employee Poaching Deal with Apple
