Pocket’s Best of 2022: Business & Careers

We need fewer things to work on. Starting now.

The opportunity to ask questions at the end of a job interview is one you don’t want to waste.

Car dealerships deploy tricks and traps to make as much money as they can from you. Here’s what I learned when trying to buy a new car.

A hard look at what happened to the company, and what will happen next.

Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability. What is lost?

Who goes into the office and when largely depends on where employees fall on the org chart.

Why has this problematic, unloved technology taken over retail?

Six strategies to use anger in more positive ways.

Ordering clothes from Chinese brands like Shein is easy. Sending them back is a lot more complicated.

Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, tenants say they’re the ones paying the price.

Explore the stories that defined the year, and the ones we’ll still be talking about in 2023. Plus, discover the best long reads, smart advice, and entertaining culture writing that Pocket readers loved this year.