(task) Pollution is scaring away top recruits for global companies - Feb. 14, 2016

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> Pollution is scaring away top recruits for global companies
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> Is the water contaminated? Is the air toxic? If the answer is yes, corporate executives are saying "no thanks."
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> Edward Monser, the president of Emerson, said that top recruits are increasingly unlikely to accept postings in polluted cities.
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> "When we talk to new executives, and they go home and talk to their family, the first thing they want to understand is: Is the air and water going to be clean or not," Monser told CNN's Richard Quest on Sunday at the CNN Asia Business Forum in Mumbai.
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> "They believe the job will be good, they believe the schools will be good, but they're very concerned," he said. "Is this going to be a long-term health issue?"
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> Emerson, a U.S. multinational that makes products across the globe, is not the only company focused on this issue. In China, 53% of firms are finding it difficult <http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/08/news/economy/china-pollution-business/?iid=EL> to fill executive roles, according to a survey released earlier last year by Bain & Company and the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
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> India, the world's fastest-growing major economy, is also home to the world's most polluted city: Delhi.
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> Related: This Indian city has the world's worst air <http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/14/news/economy/india-delhi-air-pollution/?iid=EL>
> Monser said that pollution imposes a high cost on people who are exposed.
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> "As we move people around the world, there is a scar that's out there, and that's the people that we sent to China who were exposed to pollution, and their children who were exposed to pollution," he said.
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> CNNMoney (Mumbai) First published February 14, 2016: 4:32 AM ET