We’re told that a team cleaned over night at the company’s Chelsea campus, and staff were able to return on Monday. Christopher Sadowski
They better run some de-bugging software!
Page Six hear that Google has been dealing with bedbugs.
Scratchy sources say the outbreak began at the Chelsea campus and appears to already be under control.
The dreaded bloodsuckers have been the scourge of many an elite New York institution. Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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 they should stay home until further notice.
It being a Silicone Valley company, they set up a live tracker so that staff could monitor the situation in real time.
A team worked overnight to clean up, and by Monday staff were told that it was safe to return.
The company searched the new Hudson Square location out of “an abundance of caution.” Charles Guerin/ABACAUSA.COM
The company also did searches at the new Hudson Square offices, just to be safe.
Meanwhile, we find it oddly reassuring that the gods of the Information Age still have the same old gross problems that have plagued New York firms for centuries.
The parasites have a long and storied history in Manhattan’s upper echelons.
2010 saw an outbreak of the bugs that hit stores, movie theaters and some of the city’s swankiest hotels. Georgy Dzyura – stock.adobe.com
The New York Times got a dose in 2019, the Wall Street Journal got hit in 2010, as did Victoria’s Secret (which somehow seems especially wince-worthy), and the Waldorf Astoria’s had various battles with the little beasts.
For our money, the only chicer vermin is mice, which have made it all the way to Condé Nast — a glass ceiling that bed bugs have yet to breach.
It’s actually not the first time that Google has had mega-bites to worry about. The company also got walloped with the bugs back in 2010.