TikTok Confronts New Threat: Bed Bugs

TikTok has hit a snag in its efforts to bring employees back to its New York City office: bed bugs.

The discovery of a bed bug in the office last December, where hundreds of employees are based, has sparked a frenzy among workers fretting about the risks of transmitting bed bugs to roommates and pets, not to mention creators and other business partners. Employees this week asked for the office to be temporarily closed, after one staffer wrote on Lark—TikTok parent company ByteDance’s internal messaging system—that they’d heard a colleague had brought bed bugs home from the office.