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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
masaegu, can you ask 今日は働きますか at, say, 5am if work starts at 8? "Will you work today?" Personally, if I wanted to ask that, I'd have 行く as the main verb rather than 働く and then ask if he's going to work instead. But I just wanted to ask.
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No, that is not how you ask someone if he is going to work that day. That is if you do, it sounds like the person has a very unconventional lifestyle where he just decides every morning (by asking his own mood) whether he is working on that day or not.
We just don't use the word 働く in that situation. We would use phrases like:
今日会社でしょう？
今日仕事でしょう？
今日お勤めでしょう？
今日仕事行くんでしょう？
今日会社行くんでしょう？
今日会社行くの、行かないの？
今日仕事あるんでしょう？
今日会社あるんでしょう？
The 今日 part in each phrase can be replaced by either 今日は or 今日って.
No matter how hard I try, I couldn't think of a natural-sounding alternative phrase using a form of the word 働く.