The phrase "associates are working" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a group of associates or employees is currently engaged in work-related activities.
Example: "The associates are working diligently to meet the project deadline."
Alternatives: "team members are engaged" or "staff are currently working".
Rove's associates are working on the campaign, and Bush has already raised more than a million dollars for Cornyn, and will likely return to Texas to do more.
The project developer is a close friend of Mr. Brown's, and several of Mr. Brown's political associates are working as lobbyists for the project.
For now, he said, many of the firm's associates are working from home and a few are working at other offices.
Six research associates are working on the project with Paluck and Hana Shepherd, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
At the Harvard Business School, three student sustainability associates are working to increase the number of sustainability case studies on campus.
In addition to examining the cumulative effects of "repetitive concussive and subconcussive injuries to the brain," Dr. Bernick and his associates are working to detect the earliest signs of brain injury and to determine why some boxers seem more likely to develop neurological disorders than others.
Johnson had cited news articles and private information he had been given that he said made him think Nixon's associates were working against his efforts.
In an effort to discredit the coalition, Austro-Hungarian authorities provided the publicist Heinrich Friedjung with documents alleging that Supilo and his associates were working on behalf of Serbia.
Now, that is not my description; rather, it reflects the view of President Lyndon B Johnson, who, in the final days of the 1968 presidential election, became convinced that Richard Nixon (who eventually won the race) and his campaign associates were working surreptitiously with the South Vietnamese government to obstruct peace talks between the US and North Vietnam.
Sepideh Khodaparast, a postdoctoral research associate, was working with bacteria when she noticed something curious.
There have been reports that an associate was working with Tory MPs on opposing May's Brexit plans, including discussions about a new referendum campaign.
