Luckily this didn't impact Scott. This revelations are absolutely big risk for the relationship Scott and Jean desperately wanted to hide. On the first place they are here because of Nathan's bachelor party.
So, as his childhood best friend Scott must have attended the party moreover if his sister also got included into it. This would have of course caused the suspicion of Scott being Jean's fiancée if Shawn isn't there to help them. As Scott is in vacation Shawn agreed to substitute his brother as temporary CEO.
As most of the employees usually keep their count on presence of their boss according to number of executive meetings took place and number of projects got signed they didn't see unusual changes in way of the work.
So they though that their CEO is the one who is taking the meetings. This made the reporters to believe that workaholic Scott Summers cancelled his vacation to celebrate his friends bachelor's party.