Electronic Scabbing

Adapted from the slang term scab (a strike-breaker or one who crosses a strike line to work in place of striking employees).

Electronic scabbing refers to the practice used by managers and other executives when computer networks are used to transfer e-documents (e.g. accounting, clerical, word processing, database records etc.) to a non-striking work force.




Suppose a company has two branches, one in city A and other in city B. One day employees of B started a strike. Hence all the work in B is in pending. So the managers or other executives send the work through internet to branch A and the employees of that branch will complete the work. This practice is commonly known as electronic scabbing.