(From business.ASIAONE.com) IT IS a quirk that drives some seniors round the bend: The young executive busy sending an SMS even as the boss is talking.

But yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean had 400 business leaders in stitches when he described the habit.

'I have heard older folk lamenting that they cannot understand why young people seem to be texting messages all the time, even when they are in the middle of a conversation,' he said when opening a one-day conference on fair employment practices.

'They wonder which conversation is more important.'

These different traits of different generations at the workplace were distilled by a new survey into four generations of workers: the traditionalist, the baby boomers, Gen X and Gen Y.

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