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Mattress bugs: the nightmare of any metropolis dweller, frequent traveler, and now Google worker. The group on the firm’s Chelsea campus have been notified on Sunday {that a} potential mattress bug infestation had been found within the constructing and have been informed to stay at house so the situation might be handled. As if working over the weekend wasn’t sufficient of a bummer. Fortuitously, exterminators collected their bug bounty, and staff have been allowed to return to the constructing on Monday morning.

Google informed staff to file a report if they’d signs of mattress bug bites or noticed proof of mattress bugs on web site, in accordance with an electronic mail despatched by the corporate and obtained by Wired. They have been additionally informed to contact skilled exterminators in the event that they by chance introduced mattress bugs house; hopefully Google foots the invoice for these unfortunate folks.

In line with Wired‘s sources, the infestation might have been attributable to “numerous massive stuffed animals” within the Google workplace, however the publication wasn’t in a position to affirm that. It is at all times those you least suspect.