"Recruitment has become difficult as the number of foreigners who are applying for teaching positions in Beijing has decreased by at least half compared with the same time last year," said Yang Sha, general manager with Angelina International Placement Service in Beijing, which specializes in hiring foreigners to teach languages in schools in China.
"Air quality is absolutely the main reason," he said.
All four foreign staff members in Yang's company left Beijing this year because of the smog.
One left for the southern city of Xiamen, Fujian province, and the others went back to their home countries, Yang said.
Elisabeth Anderson, a Swede who works in Beijing, said a Swedish friend of hers just left Beijing because of the air quality.
Anderson said her friend had spent most of her time working in Beijing during her 10-year stay in China.
"She has contracted a lung disease, so she is worried that a longer stay will make the illness worse," she said.
Rhio Zablam, from the Philippines, works at a media firm in Beijing. He married a Chinese woman in 2011, and they had a baby in February.
"My wife and I are worried about the air pollution in Beijing because it might be harmful to the growth of my baby," the 34-year-old said. "Although the smog does not occur every day, I have not yet brought my baby out of the house till now."
Zablam said he plans to buy an air purifier as many of his European friends in Beijing have done.
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