Google Has a Bedbug Infestation in Its New York Offices

Google labor working astatine nan company’s Chelsea field successful New York City received a announcement connected Sunday alerting them to a imaginable bedbug outbreak astatine nan office. Exterminators arrived astatine nan segment pinch a sniffer canine “and recovered reliable grounds of their presence,” according to an email obtained by WIRED. The email was sent to each Google labor successful New York connected behalf of nan company’s environmental, health, and information team.

Employees were told to debar nan agency until nan curen was complete. On Monday morning, they were allowed to return. Google is performing further inspections astatine different Google campuses successful New York, including buildings astatine nan company’s Hudson Square campus, “out of an abundance of caution,” nan email says.

The institution advised labor to taxable a study “if you acquisition symptoms you judge are linked to imaginable bedbug exposure.” Additionally, “if you fishy you’ve seen a bedbug onsite,” labor were told to study nan sighting to nan accommodation team. Employees were besides told to interaction master exterminators if they recovered bedbugs successful their home.

Sources show WIRED that Google’s offices successful New York are location to a number of ample stuffed animals that are rumored to beryllium implicated successful nan outbreak. WIRED was not capable to verify this accusation anterior to publication. Google declined to comment.

This is not nan first clip a Google agency successful New York has been infested pinch bedbugs. In 2010, nan company’s 9th Avenue offices successful Manhattan experienced an outbreak amid a wider bedbug infestation successful New York.