{"id":252471,"date":"2026-05-22T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/acrisure-to-cut-2250-employees-citing-advances-in-technology-and-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:15:26","slug":"acrisure-to-cut-2250-employees-citing-advances-in-technology-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/acrisure-to-cut-2250-employees-citing-advances-in-technology-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrisure to Cut 2,250 Employees, Citing Advances in Technology and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/national\/2026\/05\/22\/871138.htm\">Acrisure to Cut 2,250 Employees, Citing Advances in Technology and AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/national\/2026\/05\/22\/871138.htm\">https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/national\/2026\/05\/22\/871138.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 09:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.insurancejournal.com\">www.insurancejournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acrisure\u2019s CEO told employees that about 2,250 of them won\u2019t be with the company by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based global broker is planning to reduce its headcount by about 11%, mostly in the U.S., said a memo from CEO Greg Williams to employees. Acrisure has about 19,000 team members, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>Layoffs at the private equity-backed company started May 21 and will \u201ccontinue in phases into 2027,\u201d said Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Acrisure did not immediately respond to a request for comment but Williams\u2019 memo said the company is entering a \u201cnew phase of execution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvances in technology, [artificial intelligence], and digital platforms are fundamentally changing how businesses operate, how clients expect to be served, and how value is created,\u201d he said. \u201cWe made our first scaled AI investment in 2020, and as other leading organizations accelerate in this direction, we must continue to push the pace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Williams said Acrisure will continue to combine human expertise with technology platforms, use AI and automation to cut down on manual work for faster results, and build digital capacity to serve clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe greatest risks we face are not acting decisively enough and seeking comfort in the way things \u2018used to be,&#8217;\u201d Williams wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeveraging technology must be the core of how we operate, how we grow, and how we delver value to clients every day,\u201d he explained to employees, adding that North America insurance operations will organize \u201cmore intentionally around our lines of business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2025, Acrisure cited advancements in technology and AI when it said it was laying off 400 members of its accounting workforce this year.<\/p>\n<p>Acrisure was ranked No. 3 in Insurance Journal\u2019s 2025 Top 100 Independent Property\/Casualty Agencies report with about $2.8 billion of property\/casualty revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagtag\">\n            <span class=\"tagtag\">Topics<\/span><br \/>\n            InsurTech<br \/>\n            Data Driven<br \/>\n            Artificial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/national\/2026\/05\/22\/871138.htm\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acrisure to Cut 2,250 Employees, Citing Advances in Technology and AI https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/national\/2026\/05\/22\/871138.htm Publish Date: 2026-05-22&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/layoffs-firing-AdobeStock-scaled.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252471"}],"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=252471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252473,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252471\/revisions\/252473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}