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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 launches insurance for couriers & 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: Our team reflects on womanhood

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…
Honoring Black History Month at INSHUR

Written by Bojana Ninkov About four months ago, I shared how we celebrated UK Black History Month. Well, the time has now come to honor Black history in the US, an exciting first for us at INSHUR. I was tasked with creating a plan on how we will honor and celebrate the profound and pivotal…
We asked our team “what makes INSHUR a great workplace?”

Written by Flick West At INSHUR, we are committed to creating a workplace that is stimulating and friendly with countless opportunities for growth and plenty of autonomy. We’re excited to be hiring across all departments in 2021 and, with our hiring pool growing this year, there’s never been a better time to join us for…
Giving back (and enjoying the ride!)

Written by Mat Valencic Being helpful is a big part of our culture and DNA here at INSHUR. We even dedicated one of our values – We are helpful and grounded – to support this. And while helping each other is very much who we are, we also realise that there is a lot more…
INSHUR appoints regional manager and starts new partnership following the rapid growth of operations in The Netherlands

Announcing a new partnership and appointment of our Insurance Operations Manager in the Netherlands
Taking stock: My first year at INSHUR

Written by Tina Phillips (she/her) The end of last week marked one year of joining INSHUR; a young, ambitious company based in Brighton and New York that’s trying to change the way people look at, and feel about, insurance. My main drive for looking, certainly initially, had perhaps less to do with the company and…