Something in the air

21 December 2016 By Katrina Hamlin Follow @KatrinaHamlin

Poisonous air has caused major disruption in recent weeks in China and India. Public awareness of the pollution problem is growing too. Employers will need to factor in a fatter premium in 2017 if they want to attract and retain the best brains in dynamic but dirty markets.

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Beijing issued a red alert, the highest possible air pollution warning, on Dec. 15. High levels of pollution have continued across northern China since then, and as many as 24 cities had issued similar warnings by Dec. 20, according to China Environmental News.

Average levels of small pollutants in the atmosphere reached a so-called PM2.5 measure of 72 in South Asia in 2015, according to World Bank data.

South Asia was the worst affected region, and PM2.5 readings there have been growing steadily worse over the past five years, according to the dataset.

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