The phrase "are instead working" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone is currently engaged in a different activity than what was previously expected or suggested.
Example: "While others are preparing for the presentation, we are instead working on the project proposal."
Alternatives: "are currently engaged in" or "are instead focused on".
Even the governments themselves, DfID and USAid, have to work together to ensure their donations are not duplicating efforts, but are instead working synergistically".
While Syrian children nominally also have access to education, over 300,000 school-age children are not in school, and many are instead working in factories or farms.
Where once it was assumed that the person advertising themselves awkwardly on a screen was there because of social ineptitude, it's now much more common – and accurate – to assume that they are instead working 13-hour days in order to convert their unpaid internship into an underpaid graduate job.
However, the recent numbers show home owners are doing exactly the opposite and are instead working hard to pay off their debts.
The additional lawyers working on the backlog cases are not full-time, permanent staff, but are instead working under contract.
Parents, teachers and administrators have stopped pointing fingers about the challenges that students face, and are instead working together to change their lives for the better.
You will be, instead, working out at a moderate intensity.
He also says it's not Brazil's main priority to 'put a smile on everybody's faces' and is instead working hard to become champions for the sixth time.
His guilty verdicts were overturned so frequently, he said, that he once met a man whom he had sentenced to death who was instead working as a ticket collector on a bus.
Tata Steel has halted plans to sell the Port Talbot steelworks and is instead working on keeping its UK business as part of a joint venture with the German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp.
Again, like most companies who publicly disclose their status, Feedly is not paying the cybercriminals the ransom demanded, but is instead working with its network providers to mitigate the attack, as well as with other victims and law enforcement.
