Terminal illness & work

How should you memorialise a teammate who dies of a terminal illness?

Faith Holloway
Compassionate Employers Lead at Hospice UK
Faith Holloway is Compassionate Employers Lead at Hospice UK. Her team advises a portfolio of 20+ top companies across finance, insurance, and healthcare on grief and terminal illness at work.
Faith believes it’s time to stop treating grief and terminal illness as taboo topics at work—and to normalise them.

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