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Working with death

Compassionate leave: what is it and how much do I get?

We all have to deal with loss at some time in our lives. When this happens, we may need to take time away from work to grieve, organise a funeral and sort out the estate. Taking this time from work is known as compassionate leave.

The Year In Wills Report 2020: How COVID-19 made us all face our mortality

Last year saw a huge rise in people writing wills from home. After checking tens of thousands of wills last year, we can now reveal the biggest trends of 2020. And you can also download our full report for tips on making your will.

Rebranding death: How Farewill is using design to change the way the world deals with death

Anna Charity – illustrator, creative director and visual mastermind behind the revolutionary mindfulness app, Headspace – was brought in to lead the rebrand.

Talking about death to break the taboo: What it actually feels like working with death

Welcome to our new blog series 'Talking about death to break the taboo'. Today we hear from Tink, our Senior Funerals Coordinator, on what it’s like organising funerals at Farewill and what it feels like working with death.

Creating a Platform function

We’ve started a new area of the business: Platform. Its purpose is to support and enable our product teams and other parts of the business, and I thought I’d share a bit about creating it.

How we've created a compassionate leave policy that changes the way we deal with death

We know that grief impacts people differently and we think it’s important that compassionate leave policies reflect this. We’ve put together a guide to help you to do the same for your place of work.

Introducing Farewill's Engineering Progression Framework

Towards the end of 2020 we wrapped up the first version of our Engineering Progression Framework. Now we’ve been using it internally for a little while, we also wanted to share it more widely, to help others learn more about Engineering at Farewill.

How we made personas to help us empathise with customers

Personas are a tool to help product teams make customer-centred decisions. We wanted ours to be useful, relevant and unbiased – and in the process of creating them we learned a few lessons and broke a few ‘rules’. Here’s how we went about it.

Mid-year circuit breaker at Farewill

We’ve had a pretty remarkable 18 months here at Farewill. We’ve launched new products including Funerals and Lasting Powers of Attorney, grown our team from 60 to 140 people, increased our revenue 600%, and raised our Series B.

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