The phrase "arrangement can work" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the effectiveness or feasibility of a particular arrangement or plan.
Example: "After reviewing the options, I believe this arrangement can work for both parties involved."
Alternatives: "the setup can be effective" or "the plan can succeed".
BUT advocates of corporate sponsorship say the arrangement can work with the proper safeguards.
This arrangement can work at companies during leadership transitions and when there are dominant shareholder blocs, like family control.
The new arrangement can work, however, only if the senators themselves exercise restraint and do not use their positions to block nominations arbitrarily and even secretly, or to keep bills that have broad support bottled up in committee.
In some cases, a part-time arrangement can work for both the employee and the company.
Advocates say that with standards for the educational credentials of the teachers, class sizes and the quality of curriculum, such arrangements can work.
After the meeting, Mr. Brahimi said he would try to convene "a representative sample of the Afghan population together and see what kind of interim arrangements can work together for Kabul".
It is hard to see if some of these arrangements can work in the new millennium, but I doubt that any of them will be broken up in the immediate future.
Folbre sometimes uses this simple set-up to show undergraduates that cooperative arrangements can work: She sets out a bunch of paper clips and tells two students that she'll pay them 10 cents apiece for each paper clip collected in an initial period, then 25 cents a piece for each one collected in a second period.
Lakhdar Brahimi of Algeria, the United Nations envoy working to galvanize the Afghan opposition to the Taliban, emerged from the conference to say, "We are going to try as soon as possible to get hopefully a representative sample of the Afghan population together and see what kind of interim arrangements we can work together for Kabul".
She has offered me a flexible working arrangement whereby I can work from home and my hours are spread out across the week, so I can take and pick my daughter up from school.
Thanks to technology, many companies have instituted more flexible working arrangements, so people can work from home more often, some telecommuting 40 hours/week.
