'horizontal working' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a term used in business to describe an arrangement where employees of the same rank work together directly and develop a more productive workplace. For example, "The company has implemented a horizontal working system to ensure better collaboration among its employees of all levels."
Software Technologies, one of the earliest entrants, is more horizontal, working with many industries.
For example, during brain surgery, the transducer array must be inserted in a sterile sleeve and the sterile saline solution used as coupling medium requires a horizontal working plane.
Following a meeting in 1990, the Technical Committee (TC) delegated its work to four Working Groups (WG); a Horizontal Working Group HWGG) and three Working Groups responsible for the Medical (WG1), Veterinary (WG2) and Food Hygiene, Domestic and Institutional (WG3) market sectors.
As they did so, they discovered that they had to add activities missing from the original horizontal work streams.
True, the compelling "To Darkness" (1965-66), a bonelike horizontal work of Miharu granite that combines both rough and polished surfaces, is perfectly placed in the center of the south plaza garden looking as if it had always been there.
In traditional horizontal work streams, the gap between current status and the goal starts out far wider, and a feeling of urgency does not build up until a short time before the day of reckoning.
So, for example, the horizontal work stream labeled "Set up private-sector market in agricultural support services" includes activities like developing a system of coupons to subsidize farmers' purchases.
The adhesive-material and office-product company Avery Dennison took a similar approach, creating a portfolio of rapid-results initiatives and horizontal work streams as the basis for its overall growth acceleration strategy.
"Yin Yang," a horizontal work from 1990, imposes three greenish rectangles on an expanse of dark red-brown, evoking both scroll paintings arranged on a wall and Japanese screens of folded or hanging kimonos.
In 2014, the OECD Strategic Foresight unit piloted a globally, wide and deep horizon scan of multiple sources of data (a meta-scan) to help frame and inform a new strategic and horizontal work programme on the Next Production Revolution.
Yet safe and effective work is dependent upon horizontal work co-ordination, particularly strong collaborations between professional groups; thus effective inter-professional and organisational communication is vital[ 29].
