{"id":250837,"date":"2026-05-20T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/acrisure-to-cut-2250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:35:18","slug":"acrisure-to-cut-2250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/acrisure-to-cut-2250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrisure to cut 2,250 jobs amid rise in artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/news\/local-news\/grand-rapids\/acrisure-to-cut-2-250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence\">Acrisure to cut 2,250 jobs amid rise in artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/news\/local-news\/grand-rapids\/acrisure-to-cut-2-250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence\">https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/news\/local-news\/grand-rapids\/acrisure-to-cut-2-250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 18:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.fox17online.com\">www.fox17online.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. \u2014 Acrisure, a global financial technology and insurance company based in Grand Rapids, is laying off thousands of its employees.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, CEO Greg Williams sent a letter to employees, announcing that an estimated 2,250 of them would likely be losing their jobs, representing an 11% reduction in the company&#8217;s workforce. <\/p>\n<p>FOX 17 has confirmed the validity of this internal communication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision affects colleagues who have contributed meaningfully to building Acrisure, and was not taken lightly,&#8221; Williams said in the letter. &#8220;It was driven by how work must evolve as we build the company we need for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These layoffs, according to the letter, would begin on Wednesday and continue in phases into the next year, primarily impacting the company&#8217;s operations within the country. <\/p>\n<p>Williams cited recent technological advancements in artificial intelligence as reason for the cuts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our future is not merely about doing the same work in a different structure&#8230; it\u2019s about changing how work gets done,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must continue to push the pace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In October, Acrisure laid off around 400 of its employees as part of a shift toward &#8220;technology and automation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ListItem-category\">Grand Rapids<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ListItem-title\">Professor says Grand Rapids economy could lose $30M from Acrisure layoffs<\/h3>\n<p>On Friday, the company celebrated the opening of the Acrisure Amphitheater, Grand Rapids&#8217; newest concert venue, which secured the naming rights before its construction with a $30 million gift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ListItem-category\">Grand Rapids<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ListItem-title\">Acrisure Amphitheater opens after years of planning and $184 million investment<\/h3>\n<p>Follow FOX 17: Facebook &#8211; Twitter &#8211; Instagram &#8211; YouTube<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/news\/local-news\/grand-rapids\/acrisure-to-cut-2-250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acrisure to cut 2,250 jobs amid rise in artificial intelligence https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/news\/local-news\/grand-rapids\/acrisure-to-cut-2-250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence Publish Date: 2026-05-20 18:24:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/705cf90\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1920x1008+0+0\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fewscripps-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fab%2F4d%2F5dd985944f29a7381db7b193a622%2Facrisure.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250840,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250837\/revisions\/250840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}