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The headquarters of Santa Barbara, California, software company Invoca have been empty since March. But unbeknownst to the staff, the office was buzzing with activity. Specifically, with bees.
While Invoca's 210 employees were working from home amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a colony of honey bees was busy building a nest inside the walls of the three-story building the company rents on State Street in Santa Barbara. By the time the bees were discovered this month, they numbered 20,000. "We've talked a lot about the challenges of coming back to the office," Gregg Johnson, CEO of the four-time Inc. 5000 honoree and three-time Inc. Best Workplaces honoree, tells Inc. "I would have never in a million years, in my wildest dreams, imagined this would be a facilities problem we would run into.”
Susan Arango, an Invoca workplace experience manager, first noticed the critters when she went to the office in late April to check up after a windstorm. It seemed odd, yet with no live bees in sight and with all the employees in Invoca's Santa Barbara, Denver, and Bay Area offices working remotely, Arango didn't worry too much about it. As months passed, she kept seeing more dead bees near the entrance. She searched the building trying to find evidence of a nest, and in January she finally gave up.
The bees certainly didn’t. Read our story to learn how a local bee removal company eventually discovered the hive--including 10 gallons of beeswax, honey, and pollen--and what happened next. |
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