Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to determine work placement preferences are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving, via a processor, a request for a resource to fill an open position within an organization, the request including a primary resource group for the open position, determining with the processor resource group preferences of resource groups using a structure of the organization that includes functional relationships between the resource groups, calculating weights for the resource group preferences based on respective organizational distances in the structure of the respective resource groups from the primary resource group, determining a target resource group with a greatest calculated weight for a resource group preference from among the resource groups that have at least one available resource, and selecting a resource within the target resource group to fill the open position.