{"id":217589,"date":"2026-05-20T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/acrisure-to-cut-2250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:30:11","slug":"acrisure-to-cut-2250-jobs-amid-rise-in-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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<ul>\n<li>Acrisure, a global financial technology and insurance company based in Grand Rapids, is laying off approximately 2,250 employees, an 11% reduction in its workforce.<\/li>\n<li>CEO Greg Williams cited technological advancements, particularly in artificial intelligence, as the primary reason for these layoffs.<\/li>\n<li>The layoffs will begin immediately on Wednesday and continue in phases over the next year, mainly affecting the company\u2019s domestic operations.<\/li>\n<li>This move follows a smaller layoff of around 400 employees in October as the company shifts toward increased technology and automation.<\/li>\n<li>Ahead of these layoffs, the company recently opened the new Acrisure Amphitheater in Grand Rapids, an $184 million investment that includes a $30 million gift for naming rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/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":217590,"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":[20],"class_list":["post-217589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217591,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217589\/revisions\/217591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}