“What happens when work is not restricted to a single work location?” The development of the E-Work Well-being (EWW) scale.

This paper presents the E-Work Well-being (EWW) scale, a new and innovative measure assessing the impact of remote e-working on well-being. The EWW scale is developed and framed within a multi-dimensional work well-being model, to capture all potentially relevant aspects. Three studies were conducted on three independent samples (N1=202; N2=399; N3=366), in randomly selected samples of U.K. remote e-workers. A final 69-item scale is supported assessing thirteen first-order well-being factors, and three second-order factors. These were: Emotions, Job satisfaction, Emotional exhaustion, Cognitive wellbeing forming the Individual factors of well-being; Organisational commitment, Relationship with colleagues, Relationship with supervisor, Social isolation, Autonomy, Competence and Career Development forming the Interaction between individual and the organisation; and Musculoskeletal and Fatigue forming Physical health. The scale showed face, content, convergent, and criterion-related validity and was internally reliable. Academics but also organisations, supervisors, and Human Resource professionals can use the EWW scale to monitor remote e-workers’ well-being at work and identify specific risk factors related to well-being, which can then allow deciding about the most relevant interventions.