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Celebrating English Language Day

Written by Catherine Pearson English Language Day took place this week on the 23rd April, a day originally established by the United Nations to dedicate a day for each of the organisation’s six official languages. It’s also, not at all coincidentally, the birthday and date of death of master wordsmith William Shakespeare. As INSHUR’s resident […]
Team Building Remotely: Our Engineering Offsite

Written by Katerina D. A few days ago, the Engineering team had a remote half-day offsite. This was my first offsite with the team I joined about 6 months ago and I was excited to see how it could help us stay connected, have some fun and present some exciting ideas to improve the business […]
My first month at INSHUR

Written by Olivia Carter At the end of February 2021, I was delighted to join INSHUR as their first dedicated Engineering Manager. My personal responsibility in this new role in the insurtech world is the oversight and leadership of a talented cross-functional team of Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Software Testers. In order to support […]
Courier and delivery insurance, the INSHUR way

The delivery market is booming. While the coronavirus pandemic has played a significant part in this, home delivery of goods and food was already on the rise. Demand for UK food delivery had grown by 39% in the three years leading up to the start of 2020, according to Consumer research organisation NPD Group’s report. […]
How INSHUR celebrated International Women’s Day (for a Month)

Written by Bojana NinkovInternational Women’s Day is a day dedicated to celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women globally. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women’s achievements and campaign for women’s equality. This year, we […]
How we revamped our onboarding

Written by Charline Corsellis-Hannus When I joined INSHUR, there wasn’t much in the way of onboarding in place. I headed to the UK’s Brighton office on my first day, was handed a laptop and pretty much started working straight away. It didn’t surprise me, though. This is often the experience with young start-ups. I knew […]
Our year working from home

Written by, Tina Phillips (she/her) A year ago today, we sent all INSHUR team members a text that read something like this: “Everyone who can work from home must do so now. Check Slack for more guidance. Stay safe.” This text did not come out of the blue. For a few weeks we had been […]
INSHUR offers insurance in minutes for couriers and food delivery drivers

INSHUR’s new insurance product will get courier and food delivery drivers insured and on the road in minutes. Here at INSHUR, we’ve experienced great success with our private hire insurance product, which enables drivers to get an insurance policy entirely online without having to visit a broker’s office or pick up the phone. It’s our […]
International Women’s Day 2021: We asked our team what it means to be a woman

Written by Catherine Pearson On the 8th March 2021 we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD), a day dedicated to celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the globe. The theme for this year’s IWD is ‘Choose to Challenge’. As the official IWD website states, “a challenged world is an alert world […]

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