"work front" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a specific area of work or as a metaphor for a situation in which multiple tasks need to be completed. For example, "The team has been doing well on the work front, tackling four large projects at once."
"This was one of Italy's industrial lungs, but we've been dealt a big blow on the work front".
I live in Farmingville, N.Y., the subject of "A Perilous 4,000-Mile Passage to Work" (front page, May 29).
This book puts this aspect of Hughes work front and center, placing it into the wider context of twentieth-century American and African American religious cultures.
On the work front: I've seen groups of people worked up into a frenzy at sales conferences and corporate pep rallies.
The tattoos are designed by Nic Farrell, a Cambridge-based illustrator and typographical artist who used to work front of house at the Cambridge Picturehouse.
I am outraged, but not surprised, that the country's biggest law firms are cutting back on pro bono work (front page, Aug. 17).
Roux also gets to grips with it in his new BBC Two series Service, where he trains eight young people to work front-of-house in a top restaurant.
The compensation debates Lee is referring to have to do with Los Angeles' minimum-wage laws, which create a pay gap between those who work in back-of-house and those who work front-of-house, mainly the servers.
But it is equally fascinating in that he came from a singular background, making Eric and his work front-row witnesses to some of the great changes in American life.
Early on, she worked front of house.
Sara Galvin began her career working front of house at The Ritz and The Lanesborough, where she met her husband Chris Galvin.
