They better run some de-bugging software! Page Six hears that Google has been dealing with bedbugs. Scratchy sources say the outbreak began at the Chelsea campus and appears to already be under control.
An email seen by Page Six went out to staff on Sunday, saying that an, er, search had turned up evidence of the dreaded bloodsuckers, and that employees should stay home until further notice. Being a Silicon Valley company, they even set up a live tracker so staff could monitor the situation in real time.
A team worked overnight to clean up, and by Monday, staff were told it was safe to return. The company also conducted inspections at their new Hudson Square offices, just to be safe.
Meanwhile, we find it oddly reassuring that the gods of the Information Age still face the same old gross problems that have plagued New York firms for centuries. Bedbugs have a long and storied history in Manhattan’s upper echelons.
The New York Times got a dose in 2019, the Wall Street Journal was hit in 2010, as was Victoria’s Secret—which somehow seems especially wince-worthy. The Waldorf Astoria has also had various battles with these little beasts.
For our money, the only chicer vermin are mice, which have made it all the way to Condé Nast—a glass ceiling that bedbugs have yet to breach.
It’s actually not the first time Google has had mega-bites to worry about. The company also got walloped by bedbugs back in 2010.
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