U.S. companies operating in China are having an increasingly hard time recruiting qualified managers because of the bad air quality in the country’s major cities.
An American Chamber of Commerce survey in China has found that nearly half its member companies said bad air quality is a major obstacle to recruiting and retaining senior executives.
This is up from 30% last year. In the same survey, 80% of the chamber’s members said they think China is losing its competitive advantage because of rising costs