Fast Company

At this year’s Thanksgiving Day parade, the NYPD is protecting tourists in visible—and invisible—ways.

In the wake of the Paris attacks, expect extra security at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. There will be more uniformed cops than usual, who are more likely to keep their eyes on the crowds than to joke with them. And then there are all the things that attendees probably won’t see: The snipers, the radiation detectors, the helicopters equipped with sensors, and the monitoring centers keeping tabs on the parade on CCTV.

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Are your emails out of control? We can help.

Have you ever found yourself overwhelmed by the amount of emails that are currently in your inbox? We can help. Find out the best way to attack an out-of-control inbox. There can be a method to the madness, from knowing which emails to respond to first to the best way to approach email when you’re out of the office for a period of time. Watch this video, then tell us how you manage your inbox at #WorkSmart.

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The rapidly evolving escape room industry is adopting practices from engineering, theater, and film—and coming up with some of its own.

Imagine being locked in a roomful of strangers, where the only exit has been hidden by a raving mad scientist who’s muttering half-incomprehensible clues under his breath. It sounds like the start of a horror movie—but for customers in hundreds of “escape rooms” around the country, it’s just another fun night out.

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As part of its quest to sell advertisers on retail data, Google has some information that can make shoppers’ lives easier.

Google is trying something new this Black Friday to ease the headache of shopping for both consumers and retailers.

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You love your job, but you’re offered a 50% raise to work somewhere with a stressful work culture. What should you do?

It’s an unfortunate balance that many of us debate: a high paying job or one with a good work-life balance. In an ideal world you could have both, but that’s not the reality for most people.

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Join the Black Friday madness and feel good about where your money is going.

This Black Friday, as other retailers trip over themselves to offer the cheapest products to frenzied mobs, the online clothing company Everlane is taking a different approach. Nothing will be on sale—the clothes will sell for what the company considers a fair value—and all of the profits will go directly to help the workers who sew T-shirts in the company’s L.A. factory.

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The company Mark Zuckerberg created now has 12,000 employees. But it’s doing its best to keep on acting like a scrappy startup.

The most interesting thing about Facebook’s new headquarters in Menlo Park, California—humbly known as “Building 20,” and connected to the nearby, ex-Sun Microsystems campus the company has occupied since 2012 by Disneyland-style trams—isn’t that it was designed by Frank Gehry. It isn’t even that it’s one sprawling, 434,000-square-foot room, topped off with a (windy) roof park.

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The subscription service Quip is like Birchbox for your mouth. Will Americans bite?

Technology has revolutionized the world of oral health. Our dentists have fancy power tools to clean off our plaque. We can buy industrial-strength electric toothbrushes to ensure no part of our mouths are left unscrubbed. Walking down the drugstore aisles, we are confronted by an overwhelming number of toothpaste options, from versions that whiten your teeth to those made for consumers with sensitive mouths.

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New global research shows that millennials are optimistic, but cities may not be equipped to serve them.

Perhaps you’ve heard that millennials have become the largest generation in the workplace, surpassing gen X this year, according to Pew Research. To accommodate this new group of workers and leaders, employers have had to evolve their practices around productivity and engagement.

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Gaining social media momentum means building something bigger than yourself and your brand.

Retailers may be gearing up for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but there’s another phenomenon fast spreading online—Giving Tuesday—the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving (December 1 this year), which encourages people and organizations around the world to give to meaningful causes.

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