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Happy Tuesday, everyone. Welcome back to work after Martin Luther King Jr. Day—hopefully, a day of remembrance, rest and reminders of how we can serve others and work toward a more just world. This week in Forbes Careers:

—The hot new job title of the moment? Leading corporate future of work plans

—The SCOTUS ruling against 💉-or-test rules won’t stop many existing mandates 

—The phrases that could sabotage your job search

Who’s in charge of the remote work experience at your company? Who’s accountable for making hybrid work, well, actually work? Whose job description includes staying on top of future work trends?

Increasingly, there’s a job for that. New LinkedIn data finds there’s been a spike in job titles focused on the future of work (they've seen 60% growth since the pandemic began) and those that contain a mention of “hybrid work” (304% growth). While not featured in its final Global Talent Trends report released Tuesday, the analysis was done as part of the research and provided to Forbes.

What fascinates me about these job titles is that there’s a long history of companies creating positions to show where their priorities are—or at least, what they want to tell the world their priorities are. In the mid-2000s, “chief innovation officers” sprung up amid corporate quests for organic growth. In recent years, the addition of chief diversity officers boomed in response to racial justice movements. Now that we know remote or hybrid work is almost certainly here to stay, companies recognize that someone needs to be accountable for collaborating across teams, rethinking policies—and of course, making sure going to the office really has a point.

While that’s admirable—and helpful for creating accountability and making sure someone is connecting teams—there’s also a risk. If one person or team is assigned the job of making “hybrid work” work, or taking action on future of work trends, could that make other people think it’s not theirs? Tell me: Is adding job titles like this effective? What do you think?

Work Smarter

Here are 10 ways Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings can inspire your team at work. 

Looking for a new job? These phrases could be sabotaging your job search. 

It’s performance review season. If you’re asking for a promotion, avoid these five mistakes. 

The job market is tight, even for leaders. Here are five predictions for executive job searches in 2022.

Feeling overwhelmed? Here are three easy ways to organize your thoughts.

On Our Agenda

Google spent $1 billion purchasing a London office building last week. Is this a sign of the office’s staying power post-pandemic?

The chairman of Credit Suisse resigned Monday after an investigation found he breached Swiss and U.K. quarantine rules, a reminder that even top leaders should follow the same rules when it comes to Covid-19.

Some companies, such as Google, BlackRock and Morgan Stanley, offer access to plentiful Covid-19 tests for their employees, a perk that workers at other firms may feel is unfair, at least until they get reimbursements from insurance companies following a new Biden administration rule.

More job seekers are announcing their availability through LinkedIn features or social media hashtags. But is that really a smart move?

The four-day workweek is becoming increasingly common, with more major companies announcing plans. Is it time the idea became more widespread?

Book Club

Frank Slootman, the CEO of Snowflake, which debuted on the New York Stock Exchange last year in the software industry’s biggest-ever IPO, writes about his experience taking three companies public in this guide to improving performance. Slootman told Forbes’ Alex Konrad last March that he doesn’t have a formula, but there’s a method to how he leads his companies, which includes declaring “war” on incrementalism, sharpening a company’s focus and leading with speed and urgency. 

Key quote: In the book’s introduction, Slootman describes why he wrote the book, hoping he can help people “see through the fog, establish context, sort out your options and amp up your organization:” “Leadership is a lonely business," he writes. "You live 24/7 with uncertainty, anxiety and the fear of personal failure. … What adds to the terror is that there is no manual, no how-to guide.”

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