{"id":488807,"date":"2026-06-21T19:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488807\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T19:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:15:37","slug":"pakistani-gig-workers-exports-to-hit-record-high-but-ai-threats-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488807\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani gig workers&#8217; exports to hit record high but AI threats loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/business-trends\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business trends<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Experts see low cost as strong point; freelancers want cross-border payments to improve<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260611 Pakistan Gig\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Pakistan has the second-highest share of global online gig workers among non-high-income countries. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Reuters)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">ISLAMABAD &#8212; Pakistan&#8217;s IT-related freelance exports are set to cross the $1 billion mark this fiscal year ending June for the first time, accelerating the country&#8217;s digital services sector&#8217;s dependence on a large pool of self-employed online gig workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business trends Experts see low cost as strong point; freelancers want cross-border payments to improve Pakistan has the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[365,138,219,3214,18693,2959,3594,58887,111,139,69,150590,1974,26452,4478],"class_list":["post-488807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-gig","tag-high","tag-hit","tag-loom","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pakistani","tag-record","tag-threats","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}