Life360 CEO says company will remain 'remote-first' - and reallocated its office budget to company meet-ups

""The secret of making remote work isn't better online meetings, it's more in-person meetings," Antonoff said."

""Life360 had taken the budget that used to be dedicated for buildings and those types of things and put it into travel.""

""The return-to-office movements are all like, 'Let's just force people to sit next to each other while they all have their headsets and they're on Zoom,'" Antonoff said. "It makes no sense.""

Life360 operates a remote-first policy and will continue under CEO Lauren Antonoff. The company redirects office-space budgets into travel to fund periodic in-person meet-ups. Those meet-ups focus on getting to know colleagues and collaboratively working through one or two hard engineering problems. Leaders sometimes gather in coworking spaces for concentrated collaboration. Antonoff criticizes blanket return-to-office mandates that force physical proximity while people remain on video. The approach values targeted in-person connection over routine office attendance mandates and leverages remote hiring advantages.

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