GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Acrisure, a global insurance brokerage, financial services and technology company based in Grand Rapids, plans to cut 400 accounting positions in the first quarter of 2026, the company announced Wednesday.

Roughly half the positions set to be eliminated are based in West Michigan, with the rest stretching across Acrisure’s global footprint.

The layoffs are the result of artificial-intelligence technology deployed by Acrisure, which will automate a significant portion of the work performed by the affected employees, said company CEO Greg Williams.

“The last five years have been about innovating and deploying technology anywhere and everywhere that we can,” he said.

Acrisure was co-founded by Williams in 2005 , and today employs 20,000 people globally, 2,000 of whom

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